fistfight

Example Sentences

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“Every night is like a fistfight in there, and people think you’re an idiot,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Matt Gaetz would lose a fistfight to Rand Paul’s hair perm.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

“So we went into the locker room knowing it was going to be a fistfight, it was going to be a brawl, which I think bodes well for us.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2023

Boston’s Nick Foligno and Toronto’s Wayne Simmonds got into a fistfight in the first period that lasted several minutes before they tired themselves out and the officials moved in to break it up.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2023

Ben said, “We’re worried about our father, sir. If he finds out we’re suspended I could tell him I had a fistfight with Judas Iscariot and it wouldn’t make any difference.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy