How to Use cockfight in a Sentence

cockfight

noun
  • The arena in which a cockfight is held is called a cockpit.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The movie flits between footage of a bullfight, a cockfight and a wrestling match.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2018
  • Lee first spies him in the evening street, in the middle of a crowd gawking at a cockfight.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • There are a few joking references to a cockfight, which kids may have questions about.
    — Alex Vance, Parents, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Hundreds of merchant ships docked within sight of the plazas, the air rang with the sound of church bells and cockfights, and the streets teemed with smugglers.
    — Néstor Martí, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Every weekend, there are cockfights by the grave of Sayed Faqir Hussain.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 5 June 2016
  • Three were arrested in connection with the cockfight and police are looking for three others.
    — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Several dead roosters also were found, along with equipment used during cockfights.
    — Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • Making roosters fight one another or profiting from a cockfight are state-jail felonies in Texas.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Usually, the dead were ferocious roosters, the losers in cockfights put on for rowdy gamblers.
    — David Ovalle, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2018
  • Jeevan said police filed a case and were looking for over a dozen people involved in organizing the cockfight.
    — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, as the pair locks eyes across a crowd gawking at a cockfight in the evening street, a palpable tension is achieved through the pair’s disparate looks.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Ten spectators were cited and released for being present at a cockfight, Justus said.
    — Connor Van Ligten, azcentral, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Conducting a cockfight and possessing birds for fighting are level 6 felonies.
    — Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2017
  • In a cockfight, the birds inflict physical trauma on one another, sometimes with metal spurs attached to their legs.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • The cockfight was not a local affair, drawing attendees from nearby states, Gentry said.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • His early work was about bars, cockfights, tequila, beggars, workers, peasants, Mexicans.
    — Ron Dungan, azcentral, 16 Jan. 2016
  • Five other men were issued citations for being a spectator at a cockfight, a Class C misdemeanor.
    — Domingo Ramirez Jr., star-telegram.com, 9 May 2017
  • Conducting a cockfight as well as possession of birds or paraphernalia for fighting are Class E felonies in Missouri.
    — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Rao was from a village in Andhra Pradesh, a state located in south-eastern India, and frequently attended cockfights in the area.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Two victims died after five people were shot during an altercation at a late-night cockfight Friday in Honolulu, police said.
    — CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The prohibition bars hosting and promoting cockfights or using the Postal Service to promote the practice.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • One heads to a cockfight, another rekindles an old flame in Manila, another takes on Filipino cuisine, and the last finds unexpected love while trying to heal deep wounds.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Men dressed in fake military uniforms opened fire on unarmed spectators at a cockfight in rural Ecuador, killing 12 people and harming several others.
    — Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up enforcement after one of the most serious mass shootings in that state's history happened last year at a cockfight where five people were shot, including two who died.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • According to police, the rooster involved in last week's incident was among many other roosters prepared for the cockfight betting festival in Lothunur village.
    — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Multiple agencies executed a search warrant Saturday night and interrupted the cockfight in progress.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Under his leadership, the HSUS helped enact dozens of laws to protect animals, including banning cockfights.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Johnson County sheriff’s deputies arrested twenty-five people and seized roosters from a cockfight in Alvarado on Thanksgiving, according to a statement.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Even after the Vick case, similar traditions still survive with cockfights, a related activity, still found underground, particularly in the South.
    — John Havelock, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Aug. 2017

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