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
“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
And on the seventh day, I got into the weirdest fistfight of my life.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
