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
Pretty little sparring match when Prince Arthur endeavoured to draw him into doing something damaging, either in the way of reticence or declaration, touching George Russell's explosive speech on Friday night.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
