shindy

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Well, the morning after you went there was a rare shindy, as you may imagine, when they found your manger empty.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert