fistfight
Example Sentences
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“Every night is like a fistfight in there, and people think you’re an idiot,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
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
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
The last act alone came with crushing disappointment, ultimate elation and, in between flashes of treachery, incompetence and a threat of a fistfight.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023
Poppy had done his homework on the wall outside the door when he was a boy and once saw two priests have a fistfight, rolling in the dust.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
