NOUN
- any hard struggle between equally matched groups
- a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses
How To Use tug-of-war In A Sentence
- But when an adult supervisor and other counselors organized a tug-of-war, Allan's instincts told him to refuse to join in.
- They included volleyball and relays, but the perennial favourite was the interdepartmental Tug-of-War.
- We entertained ourselves with a talent show, boxing matches and tug-of-war duels.
- Highlights also included majorettes, a steel band, a fun dog show and a tug-of-war competition.
- We entertained ourselves with a talent show, boxing matches and tug-of-war duels.
- There also will be a tug-of-war, penalties competition and a ladies' five-a-side football tournament.
- Kessler was with the agency in 1992 when nutritional labels were first introduced, and has called the tug-of-war between the FDA and the food industry at that time a "battle royale. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard's legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world's greatest con man.
- Once the victims of a tug-of-love between parents, William and Harry were now the victims of a public tug-of-war. WILLIAM
- Amid a tug-of-war over a key endorsement from Senator Thompson (Jeffrey Wright), Stevie is soon staring down tumult and at the center of power plays whipped around by reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei), Duffy, and Morris's campaign manager, Paul Zara, who is portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman with such convincement one can just about smell the cheap coffee on his breath. Felice Arenas: George Clooney: 'Hollywood Could Teach a Lot to Politicians'