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
The litigation is the latest sparring match over the landmark legislation.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2024
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
That the cock pheasants should have a sparring match is nothing unusual, but that the hare should interfere in the quarrel is not easily to be explained.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
