How to Use fracas in a Sentence

fracas

noun

• In the video, Dan Green walks into the fracas and pulls the men apart.
  — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• Not so long as there are still great deals to be made, great projects to put together, and even the occasional great fracas to stir up.
  — Robert Masello, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2015
• And lots of people who saw the fracas must have wondered: Does the airline really have the right to do this?
  — Barbara Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
• In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended.
  — Ariel Gilreath, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
• Amazingly, the perpetual fracas that swirls around Donald bypasses her.
  — Tim Teeman, Town & Country, 19 Oct. 2016
• The recent fracas over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a good example of how not to behave.
  — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2016
• As the teams lined up to shake hands, a Crescent City player allegedly called someone from Grace Christian a derogatory term, and a mini-fracas broke out.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 11 May 2017
• The idea of a solar probe to touch the sun’s corona was lost in the fracas.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2018
• Laenor, who was knocked down during the fracas, sees his lover dead on the floor.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• Again, as Castellanos walked away and stayed far from the fracas.
  — Anthony Witrado, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Sachs talked about the ratings fracas and much more with Rolling Stone.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• The two brands have largely kept themselves out of the fracas.
  — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 9 Sep. 2020
• The fracas in the Treasury market has died down, at least for now.
  — WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• Eggs were broken in the fracas and the resulting egg wash was used to give the cake a shiny gloss.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• The fracas surrounding Moore was just the tip of the scandalous iceberg for the GOP.
  — Kim Chandler, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
• Ogunjobi knocked Rudolph to the ground in the fracas that followed.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 15 Nov. 2019
• The fracas moved into the hallway, and the Massey family was asked to leave.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The fracas in Grants Pass isn't the first time a rifle raffle has raised eyebrows.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• For those who built the racket, the whole 20-year fracas was a victory.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
• Dennis can be a menace and isn’t above a fracas or four.
  — Berry Tramel, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• Staff and others not in uniform also appeared to be in the middle of the fracas and hit the floor.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The poster fracas was more than just another one-off outrage of the day.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 14 July 2017
• Williams slammed Wallace to the field before the fracas was broken up.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2023
• The teams showed no carry-over from a fracas the previous evening.
  — Kristie Rieken, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
• The fracas over the missed meeting has led to a flurry of rumors that Porzingis could be on his way out of New York.
  — Stanley Kay, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• The child started to video the fracas using a cellphone, but dropped the phone when the shooting started.
  — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
• Their piece includes a link to their coverage of the 2014 fracas.
  — OregonLive.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Mercutio is killed in the fracas, then Tybalt is strangled by the group, with Romeo left to take the blame.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• But the 2020 fracas was clearly not as well-watched as the first Trump-Clinton debate.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• But the city had a vigorous tabloid press that would likely have pounced on such a fracas.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024