fighting

Example Sentences

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Rallies among travel stocks have come and gone since March, as signs of breakthroughs in negotiations to end the conflict give way to more fighting.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

“I have been fighting for change from Day One,” she said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Other humans, like Mariana Aidar, president of the animal-welfare nonprofit Projeto CAPA—the woman presently holding out the sugarcane to the capybara snacking away on the riverbank—are fighting for their capybara neighbors to survive.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

A fragile ceasefire, in place since April 8, has mostly brought a halt to the fighting but diplomatic efforts to bring the war to a definitive end have proved inconclusive so far.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

I focus my eyes on a couple of seagulls fighting over a discarded slice of pizza.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam