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
“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
One post that drew ample engagement suggested in rather colorful language that Gritty would mop the ice with Buoy in a fistfight.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022
In “Get Me Some Medicine,” the “stinking carcass” of a porcupine becomes the key figure in an idle game of cards that ends in a fistfight.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
In the annals of chess, this was the first fistfight ever recorded by two grandmasters, both prospective World Champions.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
