shindy

Example Sentences

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The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well," said he, airily, "I'm off, don't you know, to see if I can find something to make me forget that society shindy.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

At last, raising his voice above the shindy, the whimsical sheriff succeeded in obtaining something like silence.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

But for your unprincipled shindy I could have done a good hour’s more snooze with all the pleasure in life.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram