How to Use pick a fight in a Sentence

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• Your husband wanted to pick a fight.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
• The voice tells him to pick a fight and that in that fight, Clay is not allowed to fight back.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
• Each time, over the course of the evening, the wife begins trying to pick a fight with her husband.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
• Pretty soon, no one in the neighborhood wanted to pick a fight with him.
  — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
• Never pick a fight with someone who is ready to lose everything.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2023
• While few want to pick a fight with Washington publicly, the region is rattled.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
• McCarthy may think it in the party’s best interest not to pick a fight with Greene.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Taliban forces in Kabul have so far not chosen to pick a fight with the departing western forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2021
• Time will tell if that is enough to push an angry Freedom Caucus member to pick a fight with the speaker.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Lower-ranking chimps are sometimes wary of coming inside with more dominant chimps, who might steal or pick a fight over the rewards.
  — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Should our paths not cross again, it’s been nice knowing you, well, everyone that is except that ‘drunken tw*t’ who tried to pick a fight with me on the doorstep of my hotel.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 14 June 2022
• Still, there are some who questioned the decision to pick a fight with congressional leadership and the president from her own party.
  — Brian Slodysko and Jim Salter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Some still come to pick a fight over Lincoln as a uniter or a divider, a figure to be lauded or loathed, or connect Lincoln to modern divides.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
• Instead of a clean transfer, Hill’s character picks a fight with him and flicks him off, which ends up with Bernthal’s character in the back of the squad car.
  — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 14 July 2026
• Johnson’s bill also appears to pick a fight with the federal government over public education.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• The last thing Miranda needed during this period of stress and fear was responsibility for a dog ready to pick a fight with every stray leaf in his path.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Moon then moves to pick a fight with nebulous Neptune, creating confusing or uncertain emotional states.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Senior Biden administration officials say that American troops could leave Afghanistan in three months if the Taliban does not pick a fight.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• And Bennett seemed to believe Biden was too focused on his own domestic concerns to bother much with the Palestinian issue, let alone pick a fight with Israel.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• In both cases, Jacie may misinterpret Jackie’s communication, or lack thereof, and pick a fight with Jackie.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• For example, a dreaming pointer may immediately start searching for game, a sleeping springer spaniel may flush an imaginary bird, and a dreaming Doberman pinscher may pick a fight with a dream burglar.
  — Stav Dimiropoulos, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2012
• The more nationalistic Beijing becomes, the harder Xi may try to pick a fight—so the United States should avoid giving him any extra ammunition.
  — Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2022
• Parnes reports that more than a dozen Democratic strategists and donors said in interviews that Newsom demonstrated his ability to pick a fight against Republicans and win, particularly through the ballot measure.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Nov. 2025
• Rather than invest in a diversified portfolio using responsible levels of margin, Kolanovic said, these amateur investors are going out of their way to pick a fight with a Federal Reserve intent on cooling off the economy.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• But his selection as the Super Bowl’s headliner has sparked a fierce backlash among conservatives and Trump supporters, who see the choice as the NFL trying to pick a fight with the president and MAGA Republicans.
  — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025