How to Use brawl in a Sentence

brawl

1 of 2 verb

• Fans were brawling in the streets after the game.
• Their days of brawling in a bar seem to be in the past.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• The video shows two men brawling in the plane seats while a woman and a man try to break up the fight from the aisle.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
• All five brawled in and around the ring, using chairs and stairs liberally.
  — Aaron Oster, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2017
• James watched as his mother and the other woman started to brawl.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
• In the wake of the United States’ long goodbye, the states of the region are brawling more often, and most expect that to become the new normal.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• Parents brawl over a 13-year-old umpire's call at youth baseball game.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Tampa Bay’s Jan Rutta then hit Larkin, sending him to the ice as the other players on the ice began to brawl.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
• Chinese and Indian troops brawled twice in the last four years, killing 24 and injuring dozens more.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Shocking footage shows the moment a cheerleader brawled with a bully after she was punched in the head.
  — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• Proud Boys have routinely brawled with left-wing activists in the streets of Portland, New York and elsewhere.
  — oregonlive.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• Some media types hoped for a champion who'd cuss-out or brawl with a rival.
  — Michael Knight, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2020
• Her own mother drank Wild Turkey and brawled with neighbors.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• Wanting to see that happen more than most were the diehard followers, the hooligans, both in Britain and in the rest of Europe, whose brawling tarnished the game.
  — Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
• Upset, the suspect followed them inside and started brawling with the man who owns the trailer.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018
• Bradley fractured his elbow falling over the dugout railing while trying to get to the Angels brawl with the Seattle Mariners on June 26.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• In truth, some people have brawled over now scarce items like toilet paper, but many more have done the opposite.
  — Jamil Zaki, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2020
• The men began brawling, pushing and shoving, but Hodges' mother broke them up.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• Big, brawling plates that might be found in the saloons of the Wild West, plus a few sophisticated touches.
  — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
• The brawling Brisker lived above a Toledo bar in his college days and once came storming downstairs to aid Mix when a fight nearly broke out.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Lewis will brawl it out with Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight championship.
  — Sarah Pearce, Chron, 26 July 2021
• In the opening shot, as his schoolmates brawl with a rival gang in the street, Carlos stands calmly amid the fray, unpunching and unpunched.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Dunlevy knew change would take time, but she was still rattled when, within the first month of school, one girl from that group brawled with another girl.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2016
• Today in a minute Odd behavior: Monkeys brawling in the streets in Thailand.
  — David Chancellor, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• What might be called the Court of Putin — the top 40 to 50 people in the Kremlin and their oligarch allies — will spend the next presidential term brawling over that future.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• People often ask Benner if the Pacers-Pistons brawl in 2004 was the worst moment of his career.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2022
• Rams brawling with other teams during joint practices is not exclusive to the Raiders.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Imagine Joe Maddon and Clint Hurdle brawling at third base.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• It‘s similar to the Batman: Arkham series type of brawling that’s heavy on quick combos and clever gadgets like bombs and bullets made of web.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 14 June 2018
• Garcia followed him outside with a pair of nunchucks, and the two started brawling, Baytown police said in a release.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2018

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brawl

2 of 2 noun

• Trent Williams were ejected for their roles in a brawl.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2023
• There’s a bar brawl where punches are thrown and shots are fired (no one is harmed).
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 5 Jan. 2024
• Jax State already has half its clothes off, and stays ready for a good time or a brawl.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Jan. 2023
• During the brawl, one of the combatants pulled a knife and stabbed the other two, then fled.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• One story holds that he was killed in a drunken brawl with one of his guards.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• Springer led the show for more than 3,800 episodes and countless chair-tossing, hair-pulling stage brawls.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• Here’s the video of the fourth-quarter brawl between the Heat and Pelicans that led to the suspensions ...
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• Hollywood, where brawls break out and the punchbowl gets dosed with acid.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
• Here are their stories from the street brawls in the months leading up to the insurrection.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• The previous encounter had ended in a large-scale brawl and a 2-2 tie.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• The 37-year-old basketball star, who now plays for the Taoyuan Leopards, was one of 12 players thrown out of the game after the brawl.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• That’s the line that Road House, Doug Liman’s redo of the epitome of cinéma du brawl, has gotta walk.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
• One motorist grabbed a protester by the collar and threw them on the hood of a car while others laughed and recorded the brawl.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• And there's a fun faux-single-shot action splash-panel that puts most such brawls to shame.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
• All Out media scrum and the ensuing brawl, there’s a plethora of hashing out to be done.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• John has some solid brawls with the Covenant, including one hand-to-hand knife battle with an Elite.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Gone are the Black Fridays of years ago when customers would stand in line for hours in the middle of the night, or brawls would break out over high demand items.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• Read full article The new legal brawl is a complex one.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• Video showed a shirtless white man shove Pickett in the chest before taking a swing at his face, touching off the brawl.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• The White men attacked him, sparking a massive brawl as onlookers stepped in to help the co-captain.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Luckily, the titular bad boys know their way around a brawl.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
• In March 2021, spring break crowds were blamed for brawls that had to be broken up by police and prompted the first state of emergency.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• This can only happen with dignity for all, not in a brawl.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• After that, shoves quickly turn to punches, and nearly the entire Inderkum bench joins the brawl.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• After a bloody brawl, Beth and Summer agreed to coexist.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
• That led to a competitive and back-and-forth second half that included eight lead changes and a brawl.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2024
• Solo Sikoa was intercepted by The O.C. and a brawl ensued.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Jason Clemmons alleged that Latimore fell during the brawl and asked his friend to give him the gun back.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Video shows a brawl breaking out between people on the basketball court.
  — CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
• Euroleague said in a statement that, with the ejections that followed the brawl, neither team had the number of players required to finish the game.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024