How to Use catfight in a Sentence

catfight

noun
  • Both savor catfights but frame men as dogs.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The Tony Awards could still turn into a catfight.
    — Marc Hershberg, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Adam is somehow the grand prize in this catfight, sought after by both Raven and Sarah.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2017
  • But even then that dustup lacks a satisfying catfight spark.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Alexis is just spoken of in the premiere, which still delivers a catfight.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • After a long season of snubs and catfights, the two finally get a chance to air out the true root of their problems.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 2 May 2020
  • Does this she-cat plotline, ending in the inevitable catfight, really stand the test of time?
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Now the Jersey Shore might have another hair-pulling catfight its hands.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2012
  • Does Empire not have enough catfights and fabulous outfits for you?
    — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 5 May 2016
  • After hearing the idea, a female producer asked if the two women could get in a catfight.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 30 June 2018
  • While there are catfights aplenty, most come off as perfunctory and declawed.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • But there’s also an interesting power move getting lost in the catfight.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 6 Mar. 2017
  • All the subsequent [catfights] that have been forced upon people were not motivated.
    — EW.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Jack Hill uses this location to stage one of the great catfights in exploitation film history.
    — Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The ensuing battle is a supernatural catfight over a man who’s hardly worth their time.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Feb. 2021
  • In the fifties and sixties, the catfight—say, two women wrestling while wearing lingerie—was a staple of fetish films and low-budget B-movies.
    — Kayleen Schaefer, Glamour, 13 Feb. 2018
  • As in, a catfight, even if half-engineered by an exhausted producer eager to wrap shooting for the day, is still a catfight.
    — Jensen Davis, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
  • There were opposing YouTube channels, squabbles over boys—all the makings of catfight fodder that fed tabloids for years.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 May 2019
  • But even the maturing of her character did not fully quell the occasional catfight that can energize a soap opera.
    — Annabelle Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Then just pour yourself onto the couch to imbibe in the campiest of catfights that are custom-made for laughing and yelling at as the misdeeds unspool onscreen.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The cinematic catfight—complete with screaming, hair-pulling and husband-stealing—is getting a modern makeover.
    — Caryn James, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Amid the bitchiness, the saddest sequences aren’t catfights but flickers of intimacy.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The catfights, overacting and Berry's swagger in a skimpy, tight, leather outfit that would be right at home at a Hookers Ball make for campy fun.
    — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2019
  • True to the ad's '80s inspiration, the clips, which are catching fire on social media, feature big hair, glam outfits, and catfights.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 6 July 2019
  • Everything about the royals needs to appear friendly and respectful, with fairy tales about teatime and, to keep things spicy, the occasional classic catfight.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Over eight years, the show morphed into toxic catfights, backstabbing parents and even a bankruptcy fraud conviction for Miller.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Surprisingly, even though emotions are running high, the show is remarkably devoid of the catfights among contestants that are a usual hallmark of the franchise.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In this week's episode of Valley 101, head of podcasts Katie O'Connell takes a look at the public catfight that ensued.
    — Katie O'Connell, azcentral, 22 July 2019
  • Yes, the play ends with an extravagant wedding, but the path down the aisle is cratered with a death threat, an elopement, pixie interference and the greatest catfight in world literature.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 24 July 2017
  • The danger posed by serious catfights comes from the fact that deep wounds are one of the principal ways that feline leukemia and immunodeficiency disease are transmitted.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

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