fistfight
Example Sentences
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Amy Nicholson says “One Battle” “isn’t his best film — deciding that would start a real fistfight — but it’s worthy enough to claim a prize that’s long overdue.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
The last act alone came with crushing disappointment, ultimate elation and, in between flashes of treachery, incompetence and a threat of a fistfight.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 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
When the news broke, it stopped an actual fistfight among legislators on the floor of the Italian Parliament.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
