How to Use altercation in a Sentence

altercation

noun

• The 18-year-old’s boyfriend was seen in the footage attempting to stop the altercation.
  — Angel Saunders, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
• Banks said he got involved in an altercation about a month ago when the fire alarm went off at night.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• The source of the black eye is often a blow to the area, whether caused by an altercation, fall, or impact by a hard object.
  — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
• Soon after, a friend of Thomas’s, Kelvin Watts, had an altercation with Copeland at a club.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
• Shay and Leviss get into an altercation, and Shay changes her flight home to avoid being on the same one.
  — Hannah Selinger, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
• On the street near the Eagle Rock village, Gary told me he’d been kicked out for an altercation and is back living on the street.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• Four other women make their way over to them to break up the altercation.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 7 May 2024
• This marks the second moment in the last few days that the league has had to suspend players for an on-court altercation.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
• Nikola then shoved Markieff in the back, starting an altercation between the two teams on the court.
  — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• During the altercation, the woman fought back, took the weapon from Tranchant and stabbed him, then fled to safety, deputies said.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• The altercation Monday night started in the mall and moved outside where shots were fired, Healey said.
  — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2022
• The altercation took place in a club lounge just outside the court at Phoenix's Footprint Center.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• The altercation ended with one of the workers shooting and killing Reynolds.
  — Jessica Anderson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
• The footage captured Moore grab a bottle of iced tea and bring it to the counter, where the altercation occurred, according to Jones.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
• His family has requested the body cam footage of the altercation, but has not been able to view it.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
• The city’s police chief said the children appeared to be coming home from school and were caught in an altercation that started on the bus.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
• Kennedy said the shooting stemmed from an altercation between Brown and Ward.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• What injuries, if any, each man suffered was not included in the release, nor was the cause of the altercation.
  — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 17 Sep. 2024
• The fatal altercation occurred in the area of 7 Mile and Kelly, around 9:35 a.m on Monday.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Smith’s altercation with Rock occurred with an hour to go.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Phillips said Tran did not appear to take anything from the women, and is not believed to have been injured in the altercation.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
• Six youths were involved in the incident that led to the altercation, the department said in a news release.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• This is a repeat of the 2023 sketch where Mikey Day and Quinta Brunson had a traffic altercation.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
• The two had a previous altercation in which the suspect fired a gun in the air to scare his older brother away, police said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 1 Mar. 2024
• Footage was captured of the altercation that occurred near a baggage claim area.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 7 May 2024
• This altercation during the 2022 Oscars was set off by a joke Rock made about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2022
• Footage of the minute-long fight shows the altercation began as Hunt was walking away from a pay-by-the-hour motel room and Walker rushed at him from behind.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2023
• The two men got into a physical altercation, and then shots were fired.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Feb. 2023
• That altercation played out in front of Trump, who is not required to attend the trial, but did so on Tuesday and Wednesday.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Officers said the altercation was broken up, and the victim was discovered to have possibly broken his left ankle.
  — Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2025