How To Use Fisticuffs In A Sentence
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You just have to put up with a bit of shouting and the occasional fisticuffs.
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Bring on Braniac or someone like Bizarro that the Big Blue Boyscout can wreck whole cities with while engaged in herculean fisticuffs.
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As the two No 9s flailed about on the floor, the two packs closed for a bout of ugly and prolonged fisticuffs, a scenario that was repeated throughout the match.
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This struggle finally reached the point at which cowhiding, cane thrashing and fisticuffs in the Capitol itself occurred among the candidates, and the jobbery became so openly vile and scandalous, that even a Democratic Legislature concluded it best to temporarily eliminate the jobbery feature of it, and this was done for two years of the Democratic adminisiration.
People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.
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While tracking Tony's daughter down, Angela finds herself in fisticuffs with a saucy waitress, and is revealed as a monstrous hypocrite.
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And anyone who knows me will tell you that I frown upon fisticuffs.
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The legal fisticuffs come at a critical time for Nigeria.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, according to Ken anyway, Jerry ‘ran like a woman out of the club’ to escape potential fisticuffs.
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But the rigorous selection process ensured that none of the crew came to fisticuffs.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the rigorous selection process ensured that none of the crew came to fisticuffs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fisticuffs, drinking, and also mockery of power-holding elders were expressions of the exuberant energy of the young.
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I was knocking them together gently, make-believing that they were real entities, locked in fisticuffs, a classic battle of good versus evil.
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She no longer gets into verbal fisticuffs or hits out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last Sunday there were some narky, petty exchanges and some fisticuffs but there were hardly any thunderous collisions.
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It is no longer reasonable to expect those who keep a ‘cool head’ when the fisticuffs start to restore normality in such circumstances.
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Reports that Ministers at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting - where next week's special meeting had been decided on - had almost indulged in fisticuffs were an "overstatement" and had created the wrong impression.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Seldom, though, do they descend into fisticuffs. But this is what seems to have happened in China on August 29th.
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If a burly gentleman doesn't challenge you to fisticuffs, the table is ready.
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There were fisticuffs and threats, and my backpack was gently returned to me as we exited the discotheque - apparently barred for our dirty dancing.
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He is infamous for his off-the-field antics which include zinging across the city on a high-powered motorcycle and getting into fisticuffs.
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Every dispute from fisticuffs in the street to a battle in a grand war needs its goodies and baddies.
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
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DISPUTES about science in Western countries can sometimes be heated. Seldom though do they descend into fisticuffs.
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Finally, she decided that keeping them apart wasn't doing much good, and decided to let them trade verbal barbs (although if it went to fisticuffs, she hoped they both knocked each other out).
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Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
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The resulting argument ended in fisticuffs and both men were jailed pending a trial.
Great Sporting Failures
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We can only hope for the worst and verbal fisticuffs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Rovers Return, being a soap opera pub, has seen its fair share of fisticuffs and flouncing out.
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How far all these people will go to achieve their goals is questioned over and over, making for an internal sense of suspense that enhances the propane attacks and sledgehammer fisticuffs.
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The incident began with words in a bar, with an alleged insult to some women, then a confrontation with fisticuffs and bottles being thrown.
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The resulting argument ended in fisticuffs and both men were jailed pending a trial.
Great Sporting Failures
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We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Some men still believe in fisticuffs as a method of settling grudges.
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Amid the fisticuffs there's greatness, as we film junkies know.
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What began as a heated exchange of words soon became full-blown fisticuffs.
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M. ERIC DYSON: I think that, you know, we're engaging in some rhetorical fisticuffs, so to speak, a kind of pugilism of the domestic sphere.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008
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Political infighting rarely comes to real fisticuffs, but the Scottish Tories at their Dundee conference this weekend were clearly being inspired by pugilistic events going on at Hampden.
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Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
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Sometimes, it takes good old-fashioned fisticuffs to settle the matter.
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Now, you might think this is where the fisticuffs come in.
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A bout of fisticuffs ensues, and with a misdirected right hook, the villain finds himself stuck in the shock therapy equipment.
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Oh, and the Duck, who was one of the people we sent the rejoinder to, made this offer, which we gleefully reproduce without his permission: fisticuffs at dawn, victory by pinfall or submission, fully captured on video and up on youtube within ten minutes. it's really the answer. i'm willing to be the referee if all participants are clad in yellow swimsuits.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Petty fisticuffs aside, the idea of a battle of the sexes in the snooker arena would add an extra dimension.
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Every effort was also made to discern the identity of all the major suspects or individuals who were involved in any kind of fisticuffs.
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Putting a group of big-brand marketers in the same room can sometimes result in friction, factiousness and fisticuffs.
Bill Robinson: When Marketing Minds Collide
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Handshakes then turned to fisticuffs after the final hooter to end a miserable day on an even more sour note.
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Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard.
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Now and then a jig competition would be held on the dock, to everyone's delight; and numerous parties and shindies and an occasional bout of fisticuffs added to the general merriment.
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Here's a report on the fisticuffs, which will continue with appeals.
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Failure always leads to arguments, fisticuffs and grudging reconciliation.
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In a bout of verbal fisticuffs he comes across as a man who would not be content only to win the verbal part.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, when we step through the turnstiles, it's war - minus the shooting of course and largely minus any fisticuffs too these days.
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The fisticuffs were allegedly sparked by an argument over a mutual girlfriend.
The Sun
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It was the banter between them before the starting bell, not the fisticuffs that followed, that was the fight's main attraction.
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Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
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We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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A ten second bout of fisticuffs from the numbskulls who play for Newcastle United seemed to dominate the sports news for an entire week.
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More than 1,000 suggestions were logged; online fisticuffs often ensued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taken to the nth degree this mentality could lead to a shift towards the sort of behaviour seen in ice hockey, in which known combatants get the fisticuffs out of the way before the game even starts.
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I don't necessarily believe your argument that after a short period of fisticuffs everyone settles down nicely and interbreeds.
Army Rumour Service
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The explanation for this somewhat cryptic sentence came lower down in the aerogramme, and when Saladin learned that his new stepmother was also called Nasreen, something went wrong in his head, and he wrote his father a letter full of cruelty and anger, whose violence was of the type that exists only between fathers and sons, and which differs from that between daughters and mothers in that there lurks behind it the possibility of actual, jaw -- breaking fisticuffs.
The Satanic Verses