brawl

The situation has burst into a brawl involving the city’s most powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Then he got in another brawl, was imprisoned in Fort St. Angelo, escaped, and was formally expelled by the Order—the recorded language is “like a rotten and fetid limb.”

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

The brawl has been likened to two heavyweight boxers heading into the ring.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Though the actor has not publicly addressed the brawl, in the days before the incident, he posted several videos detailing his struggles with jet lag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

He automatically checked the inhabitants of the room, a habit that had saved the detectives from more than one barroom brawl.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

When the match resumed, brawls were still going on in the stands and Morocco’s Brahim Diaz failed to score with a weakly hit penalty kick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

However, away from the bumps, blood and brawls, it was mum Angela - who died from cancer in 2012 aged 51 - who provided Drew with motivation.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025

Weir, who starred in “Matilda the Musical,” cheerfully chomps into this role, which requires tremendous physicality, blending ballet and brutal brawls, and she’s riveting, but also quite funny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

She rolls with a posse that’s 30-strong, uses warthogs like DoorDash for her tick snacks between brawls, and has a cousin who catches birds with his butt cheeks.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2024

We put headphones on when Didu's belting out songs about red roads, barroom brawls, magnolia blossoms, and lonely cowboys.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

They’d given everyone a taste of their border feud last year with the NHL’s Four Nations tournament, where they’d brawled and battled before Canada finally settled it on the ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

This isn’t the first time Whole Foods’ parent company has brawled aggressively with organized labor.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

Accentuating the anger was that Graveman was going to the detested, division-leading Astros, who the Mariners almost brawled with the night before.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

On multiple occasions, Councilman Kevin de León has brawled with his critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

We had brawled plenty by then, to the point where I viewed her a little bit like an enemy.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

In five years, Keanu Reaves will be brawling like this.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

According to legend, it took rough and rugged characters to tame the early American frontier: men like Daniel Boone, the trailblazer, or Mike Fink, the brawling river boatman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

For one, he faced a divided parliament - opposition parties in Taiwan were brawling in parliament over the weekend over proposed reforms, and protesting over the last few days.

From BBC ● May 19, 2024

He’s a fairly even-keeled, calm-sounding guy, which makes him a helpful spokesperson to an organization that has big bearded dudes going out fighting and brawling.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023

The poet Carl Sandburg had sung its praises just two years before: “Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat..../ Stormy, husky, brawling, / City of the Big Shoulders.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield