fighting

Example Sentences

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Despite fighting between the two sides earlier this week, a broad cease-fire remains in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Rallies among travel stocks have come and gone since March, as signs of breakthroughs in negotiations to end the conflict give way to more fighting.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Other humans, like Mariana Aidar, president of the animal-welfare nonprofit Projeto CAPA—the woman presently holding out the sugarcane to the capybara snacking away on the riverbank—are fighting for their capybara neighbors to survive.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

A fragile ceasefire, in place since April 8, has mostly brought a halt to the fighting but diplomatic efforts to bring the war to a definitive end have proved inconclusive so far.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

It was more like fighting than swimming, and there was nothing elegant about my movements.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo