donnybrook

Example Sentences

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Much of the coming fight over the Mississippi case — get ready for a donnybrook — will be about whether Roe alone can be overruled among those precedents.

From Los Angeles Times

In spite of the pale-blue death rays that shoot out of Godzilla’s mouth, it’s an old-fashioned donnybrook, a brawl that feels more physical than digital.

From New York Times

Ohio State barely just got finished playing a 91-88 overtime donnybrook of a Big Ten tournament final Sunday against Illinois.

From Washington Post

Then, with Brady serving and leading 40-15, the set looking like a possible donnybrook, Brady shipped a rushed backhand just long and then double-faulted wide in the middle for deuce.

From Washington Post

Ngo’s fame, such as it is, stems from a June 2019 donnybrook in Portland, in the course of which antifa activists assailed him with a thrown milkshake.

From Los Angeles Times