How to Use knock-down, drag-out in a Sentence

knock-down, drag-out

adjective

• The meeting of a pair of programs on the rise was a knock-down, drag-out affair that appeared to have no end in sight.
  — Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
• Some puzzlers describe solving the crossword as a workout; for me, today’s was a knock-down, drag-out fistfight.
  — Sean McGowan, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
• But its industry titans are also locked in a knock-down, drag-out fight for market share, with brutal price wars and competition in a crowded home market deflating profits and stymieing growth.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
• That means the knock-down, drag-out government shutdown battles that have become a Washington ritual are, in effect, a fight over a little more than a quarter of the federal ledger.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
• The game, whose knock-down, drag-out gunfights recall another first-person RPG, Call of Duty, drew a lot of initial buzz over the character Johnny Silverhand played by Reeves.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026