affray

Example Sentences

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It does require sheriffs to “keep and preserve the peace … and quiet and suppress all affrays, riots, unlawful assemblies and insurrections.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2019

For about two years, as one Soviet official remarked recently in speaking of these chronic shooting affrays, "our policy has been to hit back just a little harder than we are hit."

From Time Magazine Archive

As generally happens in these blind affrays, there was more noise than damage, and our patrol, which was considerably outnumbered, made its way safely back.

From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser)

It had been the custom of late, ever since the numerous affrays near the border of Berwick, that this messenger of life and death should ride by Carlisle and Moffat to Edinburgh.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The combat between the merchant and his antagonist was not an exception to other affrays of the kind.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne