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fighting

[ US /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈa‍ɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. engaged in or ready for military or naval operations
    review the fighting forces
    the platoon is combat-ready
    on active duty
NOUN
  1. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
    there was fighting in the streets
    a fight broke out at the hockey game
    the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap

How To Use fighting In A Sentence

  • Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
  • Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil A Conversation with Tom Bissell
  • Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
  • In Scotland there are groups of people who are fighting hard to keep Gaelic alive.
  • And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
  • At least 5,500 people have died during the past decade in fighting between government and rebel forces.
  • Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
  • There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
  • But spring is here now, the fighting season is upon us. Times, Sunday Times
  • The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle. Times, Sunday Times
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