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
Kwan: Not faces, it’s back, body, it’s like a sparring match to see who can slap each other more.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 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 English-language TV debate is usually the most widely watched political sparring match on Canada's federal campaign election calendar.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2021
This delusion was supported by the limitation of the sparring match to boxing.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
