sparring match
Example Sentences
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Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate • Apr. 26, 2025
In 1929, Fitzgerald was the timekeeper in a sparring match between Hemingway and the Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan, who years earlier served on the staff at The Toronto Star with Hemingway.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
At the weekend, the Ukraine squad held what they described as a "sparring match" with one team playing in the "style of the Scottish national team".
From BBC • May 31, 2022
Boxer Muhammad Ali visited in 1976 and engaged Mr. Jacomo in a friendly sparring match; the manager later called it “the biggest thrill of my life.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2020
By now convinced that the presence of the priests was no accident, Baker settled down to the sort of verbal sparring match that he enjoyed.
From The Image and the Likeness by Campbell, John Scott
