sparring match
Example Sentences
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Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
And their reunion opens old wounds, morphing into a living-room sparring match in what Casal calls “our ‘Love & Basketball’ episode.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
In 1929, Fitzgerald was the timekeeper in a sparring match between Hemingway and the Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan, who years earlier served on the staff at The Toronto Star with Hemingway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The candidates return on Thursday for the national English-language debate, usually the most widely watched political sparring match on the campaign calendar.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2021
By now convinced that the presence of the priests was no accident, Baker settled down to the sort of verbal sparring match that he enjoyed.
From The Image and the Likeness by John Scott Campbell
