How to Use fistfight in a Sentence

fistfight

noun

• A fistfight broke out in the stands.
• He often gets into fistfights.
• At one point the Saudis blamed the killing on a fistfight gone wrong.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• The same year, Carter and Nick, 42, faced off in a fistfight before the premiere of their E!
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2022
• Before the night was over, sirens blared as fistfights broke out.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Angels got into a fistfight with the Mariners and have been paying for it since.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• The blow sparked a fistfight in which Gay allegedly broke the other man’s jaw and nose.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2021
• Fighting for rebounds on the low block is a mix between a two-step and a fistfight.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
• In the case of the Halloween house party, deputies were called to the Whittier home for a report of a fistfight.
  — Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• There’s a mid-car chase front-seat fistfight between the brothers.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• As Scherzer reached the dugout, a fistfight nearly broke out in the first deck above the third-base line — between Mets fans.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Two of the girls nearly get into a fistfight at a keg party.
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
• Matt Damon and the Affleck brother get into a fistfight with them and get thrown out of the bar.
  — Carlos Greaves, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
• Thomas is a former Marine whose only brush with the law is a fistfight in 2008.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 3 June 2018
• Sort of like losing a fistfight, then being forced to watch a boxing match with the guy who beat you up.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
• Saudi Arabia has said he was killed in a fistfight at the consulate.
  — Deb Riechmann, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• One man, Claude Wilson, was killed in a fistfight that broke out that day at the stockyards’ hotel.
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• The affidavit says Strong and the man then got into a fistfight in the apartment’s parking lot.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
• However, as the plane was making its way to the gate, a fistfight broke out between two men.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 10 May 2017
• Johnson County teenagers planned to meet for a fistfight.
  — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2021
• The next morning, the two groups got into a fistfight, which had to be broken up by the counsellors.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Chase Robinson, a passenger on the train, thought a fistfight had broken out and tried to break it up.
  — Madison Park, CNN, 31 May 2017
• But that's an ongoing fistfight that concerns me all the time.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
• He was almost caught, ended up in a fistfight with Mark, and now is the target of an island-wide search.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Disagreements like that had a way of getting out of hand in the hills, leading to a fistfight or gunplay.
  — Chris Offutt, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Flight attendants don`t sign up to get into a job for a fistfight.
  — NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
• On New Year’s Day, while taking the subway to work with reporters in tow, Adams saw two young men in a fistfight and called 911 from the platform.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2022
• Nobody wants to end up in a viral tweet for getting into a fistfight in seat 23C.
  — Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The deputy parliament speaker declared a 45-minute recess after the fistfight.
  — Reuters, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
• Video posted on social media showed fistfights breaking out among protesters, some of whom wielded sticks and handles from signs as police in riot gear stood nearby.
  — Nathan Solis, Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, Carlos Lozano and Paul Pringle Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024