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
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
It was perhaps less of a sparring match with a witness than an attempt to turn the whole thing into a joke, into a version of an Abbott and Costello routine.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2019
Even Hal Vincent, well as he knew Jack Beavers, was greatly surprised when he was told the next day that the space was devoted to booming a recent sparring match.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
