shindy

Example Sentences

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Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, not many weeks ago I was in a far tighter place than this last little shindy of ours, and narrowly escaped with my life at the hands of the latter.”

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

At last, raising his voice above the shindy, the whimsical sheriff succeeded in obtaining something like silence.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

Then he struck at him, and there was a shindy.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)