fight to the finish
Example Sentences
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McCarthy vowed to fight to the finish, going multiple rounds of painstaking floor votes — a sight unseen in Congress since the disputed speaker’s race of 1923.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
“It was going to be a fight to the finish, but I wasn’t going to get ran down.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2022
With coach Tyronn Lue in COVID-19 protocols and eight players unavailable, the Clippers fight to the finish but fall 116-108 to the Raptors in Toronto.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2022
In melee matches, up to four knights fight to the finish, until one is left standing.
From Reuters • Aug. 18, 2021
Whatever had happened at Nutley Copse, the Efrafans could not fight to the finish against rabbits like Bigwig, Holly and Silver without losing lives—probably a good many lives.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
