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

Ed Power wrote in The Telegraph the "60-minute conversation was less a sparring match between Morgan and Fiona Harvey than a dreary question-and-answer session".

From BBC • May 10, 2024

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

"Well, I was to a sparring match the night before, and I was tired out."

From The Missing Tin Box or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds by Stratemeyer, Edward