Examples of fistfight in a Sentence
A fistfight broke out in the stands.
He often gets into fistfights.
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From a football perspective, this game would be a fistfight at the line of scrimmage.
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David Ubben, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is just as volatile, ranging from verbal fistfights in the Oval Office to respectful deliberation.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
Lowell plunders an emerald out of a wrecked ship, starts a fistfight with a local ruler, nearly dies when a boa constrictor wraps itself around her neck, and is wounded by an alligator.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
And the crowd lurches; the crowd flexes; the crowd feels its core, which is both a sucking emptiness and a site of repellent energy, like the space cleared by a fistfight.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
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David Ubben, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is just as volatile, ranging from verbal fistfights in the Oval Office to respectful deliberation.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
Lowell plunders an emerald out of a wrecked ship, starts a fistfight with a local ruler, nearly dies when a boa constrictor wraps itself around her neck, and is wounded by an alligator.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
And the crowd lurches; the crowd flexes; the crowd feels its core, which is both a sucking emptiness and a site of repellent energy, like the space cleared by a fistfight.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
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“Fistfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fistfight. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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