single combat
Example Sentences
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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
Musk further instigated his fan base with another tweet that challenged Putin to a single combat duel.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2022
Project Convergence reflects the need to rapidly merge a variety of assets — both in the air and on the ground — into a single combat element, the focus of the new training regime.
From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 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
