single combat
Example Sentences
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Halfway through the movie, to ward off full-scale war with the Philistines, David volunteers to engage in single combat with the enemy’s champion: an oversize fellow named Goliath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The Leopold was the first destroyer-escort lost in WWII, and it was the worst loss of life in a single combat action in Coast Guard history.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2020
While it’s fun to harp on individual matchups, bouts of single combat rarely tell the whole story.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2019
They whispered of Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys's Kingsguard, and of how their young lord had slain him in single combat.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
