dogfight

Example Sentences

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Last weekend Osasuna winger Munoz impressed as his team won away for the first time all season, for back-to-back wins to take them away from the relegation dogfight.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Medals of honor tend to require eyewitnesses, though Mr. Issa notes that Soviet records testify to the dogfight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

“You know it’s going to be a dogfight. Every game is going to be a dogfight from the end of the season until the end of the year.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2025

“The AI can tell a pilot to slow down or speed up. And it can evaluate an emerging dogfight and warn of a 70% probability the pilot will lose if they get into that fight.”

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson