fistfight

Example Sentences

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Amy Nicholson says “One Battle” “isn’t his best film — deciding that would start a real fistfight — but it’s worthy enough to claim a prize that’s long overdue.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

As Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told the Daily Beast, as a "professional wrestling fan" he enjoys thinking "that a fistfight could break out at any movement."

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

“So we went into the locker room knowing it was going to be a fistfight, it was going to be a brawl, which I think bodes well for us.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2023

Boston’s Nick Foligno and Toronto’s Wayne Simmonds got into a fistfight in the first period that lasted several minutes before they tired themselves out and the officials moved in to break it up.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2023

When we got older, we liked to joke that we were so glad we had that fistfight.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman