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fight over
verb as in contest
Strong matches
Example Sentences
We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.
Agriculture supported larger populations and gave them more goods to fight over.
The Pentagon prevailed this week in a fight over how many U.S. forces will fight in Afghanistan past 2014.
Believe it or not, however, we humans fight over how to realize our dreams.
Better to have whatever we can get now than fight over this and delay matters.
Numerically weak as the opposition in parliament was, it made a vigorous fight over American affairs.
Outside the gates of the Chicago stockyards, I have seen crowds of men fighting for work as hungry dogs fight over a bone.
She and Mrs Gabriel fought bitterly, and still fight over the affairs of the kingdom.
In fact, one scrub-car tink, with the glory of the West End at heart, had a fight over the amount with a sceptical hostler.
We'll put up a fight over your body: "Bartholomew Poulder, faithful unto death!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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