shindy

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knock at the door, of course, and pull the bell, and dance a break-down on the steps, and make a shindy generally, so as to let 'em know we've come."

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

How shall I make my poor Voice heard ’Midst this brute shindy, brainless, mad?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

“To oblige me by not mentioning this little shindy to any one—will you?”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram