How to Use duel in a Sentence

duel

1 of 2 noun

• They engaged in a duel of wits.
• The Cougars won the duel in Pullman last month by three points and are the Pac-12’s hottest team.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
• Bet the over as this one should be a high-scoring duel.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• The legal duels dragged out through the summer and into the next year.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• One of the days just so happened to be a duel with Durant.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
• In this version of the film, there’s no question that John Wick survives the events of the duel.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 July 2023
• The two barges in the coasting class, Gladys and Pudge, kept up a day-long tacking duel.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• In this version of the film, there was no question that John Wick survived the events of the duel.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• The duels were one of the most intense new elements of the season.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
• The duel between Prat and Smith seemed apropos, given the old and new guard feel of it.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Tellingly, the duel produces no clear victor: both fire wide of the mark.
  — Nathan Jeffers, Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
• Neither side could break ahead as the two teams began in a tense 7-7 duel in the first quarter.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
• Both men need to win this duel, in other words, to gain back their freedom.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• The fourth game, a duel between Nigeria and Ireland, ended in a 0-0 draw.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Spencer and Arthur fight, and then Arthur challenges Spencer to a duel, which ends in Arthur being thrown overboard.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 26 Feb. 2023
• The duel continued with penalty kicks as both teams made goals on the first of their five penalty kicks.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
• The qualifying also sets the lineup for the duel races.
  — Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Reincarnate broke smartly and stayed near the front for the first half of the race mostly in a duel with Spun Intended.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The manufacturer has won nine of the last 12 duels and has seven of the top 11 spots in the starting lineup.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The latter handily wins the duel, much to Mozart’s chagrin.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• The race was seen as the equivalent of a glamorous boy versus girl duel and an equine sideshow to the women’s rights movement.
  — Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• There was a time when people used to challenge their opponents to a duel when their good name was at stake.
  — Oleksandr Strozhemin, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• One corner of the store is filled with antique duel gas/electric light fixtures.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
• There’s no way Allen and Mahomes can top their all-time 42-36 overtime duel from last winter.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
• In a clip from the film, Bologne takes on a challenge against Mozart (Joseph Prowen), accepting a violin duel.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• There was his winning duel with Golden State’s Steph Curry during the 2021 play-in game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Biden's warnings that the world is dividing into a duel between despots and democrats look on the money.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• There was no allure of a quarterback duel between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• In her book, Crain details the historical events behind both the music hall duel and the dance dust-up.
  — Chris Vognar, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The city’s remaining streets seem haunted after two years of artillery duels.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024

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duel

2 of 2 verb

• The two runners dueled for the lead.
• He accepted the challenge to duel.
• Legislators dueled over the tax increases.
• When the queen dies, the worker ants of this species duel over who gets to take her place.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
• This month, the town and The Post filed dueling motions in the lawsuit over those records.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• An offshoot of this is that the pupils will duel in said mobile suits.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The dueling orders all but guaranteed that the case would go to the Supreme Court.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• The two teams dueled to an even start, with Lebanon and Sheridan settling for a 1-1 first-half knot.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
• Lawyers for both sides notified the court on Jan. 5 of a deal to resolve the dueling suits.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• With both of these starters expected to duel, the under is worth a look.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• After an extensive cool-down period, the fastest six cars of the month were ready to duel for the pole.
  — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2022
• The dueling decisions are poised to create a legal clash that could make its way to the Supreme Court.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 7 Apr. 2023
• That means Toll Brothers and Brookfield will duel once again.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• The dueling opinions are expected to send the matter quickly to the Supreme Court.
  — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
• Off the coast of Canada, a scuba diver came face-to-face with a pair of dueling sea creatures — and caught the battle on video.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• As rage spreads, dueling narratives from Israel and Hamas highlight the risk of a wider war.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Now the two quarterbacks will duel on the biggest stage in American sports.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• The two teams dueled to an even start, with Ballard and Southwestern settling for a 7-7 first-quarter knot.
  — Ledeai, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
• Contestants shoot from the lip and from the quip at each other, dueling and fooling with a topic that they’re given on the spot.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• Foley and Hanstad will square off at 7 a.m. in the upper half of the bracket and McClean and Persons will duel beginning at 7:15 a.m. in the lower half.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
• In the half marathon, Anna Shields and Annmarie Tuxbury, two top state runners, will likely duel.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Still, even for a lifelong overachiever, the dueling demands of a red-hot career and a full course load were taxing.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
• The two parties’ dueling approaches will be put to the test in the nation’s election in October.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Could the show be split into dueling programs, one about the boys and another with a little Something About Her?
  — Vulture, 6 June 2023
• The at-times dueling sides were on display last year when Altman was abruptly ousted then brought back to the company.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• Fast Nine competition, where Saturday’s crop of cars will duel to start on the inside of Row 1 come May 30.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2021
• The 96th Oscars had a lot to celebrate, what with a rough year plagued by two dueling strikes, a couple of world-rocking blockbusters, and a crop of truly great films.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• Garcia had pitched 10 scoreless innings in a pitchers’ duel against the Pac-12 rival that had knocked the Bruins out of the World Series a year earlier.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
• Seven others, however, will duel for the last three spots on the oldest and shortest circuit in the premier series, a 0.526-mile oval.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2022
• Those duelling briefs reflect a growing divide on reproductive rights between the parties—if not their voters.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024

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