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

Why, not many weeks ago I was in a far tighter place than this last little shindy of ours, and narrowly escaped with my life at the hands of the latter.”

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

“Did you get hit in that shindy just now?”

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

It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James