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

If I'm spotted there can only be a shindy.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

A scout has just come in and tells us the enemy are intrenched about 4 miles off, so that we shall have to-day a shindy of some kind.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

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