fistfight

Example Sentences

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Afterwards, Turner challenged Murdoch to a fistfight and the two media icons continued to play out their rivalry in the business world.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

At its worst, discourse over the fate of Sequoiadendron giganteum is an academic fistfight.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Matt Gaetz would lose a fistfight to Rand Paul’s hair perm.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

Consistently, to the point of comedy, Kiryu and his opponent dramatically throw off their shirts to reveal full back tattoos before a cinematic fistfight.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

We never laid a hand on each other again, and even though we’d get into plenty of verbal clashes, our tiffs tended to end the way our fistfight had, with us cracking up.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman