How to Use dogfight in a Sentence

dogfight

noun
  • The election has turned into a real dogfight.
  • He was shot down in a dogfight over enemy territory.
  • This was just a great dogfight.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The dial will be etched with a scene from a fighter jet dogfight.
    — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • For the third time in four nights, Texas found itself in a dogfight.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2021
  • While very rare, even visual-range dogfights tend to occur over a few miles.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And while both are firmly in the hunt this year, both are likely in for some dogfights.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
  • Its open world feels alive with bustling cities, dangerous deserts, and space dogfights.
    — PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Its open world feels alive with bustling cities, dangerous deserts, and space dogfights.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Late in that film, Porco tells the story of his best friend’s death in a dogfight.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And the dogfight for the NL East cellar rages on.
    — Greg Cote may 31, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
  • This should be a dogfight between two of the best teams in the SEC.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Less than six weeks to Election Day, the contest is a dogfight.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2020
  • South Houston began the night in a dogfight for either third or fourth place.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • To win any dogfight, even one in orbit, requires knowing where the other guy is.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The next two quarters devolved into a dogfight between the both team’s stars.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime.
    — Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This is a horse who was in a dogfight for a good seven-eighths of a mile and still held off the competition.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • Two games like this, dogfights to start the year and just closing it on defense, there’s no better feeling.
    — Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But Simmons knew this game was going to be a dogfight and was locked in long before the game started.
    — Sarah Todd, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In a low, twisting, turning dogfight, the P-40 would lose.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • And the Warriors were in a dogfight with the Clippers, hurt by their total turnovers.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Even so, the MiG-29 is no match for Russian jets in a dogfight.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • While there is something to be said about sticking with the hot hand, the Niners are in a dogfight to make the playoffs.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At the climax of the episode, two kingfishers sported over a stream, a dazzling dogfight of orange and blue.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Check out the scene in Top Gun where Maverick turns to head home after a dogfight.
    — Sarah Fallon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The one with the giant space station and a World War II-style dogfight.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • There are dancing lightsabers and X-wings a-plenty, with more sword battles and space dogfights than the last two films combined.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Boston, Oakland, and Seattle are in a three-team dogfight for the second wild-card spot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But with the Browns in a dogfight for their playoffs the rest of the way, the team needs to close ranks and pull together tighter than ever.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2021

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