How to Use fight for in a Sentence

fight for

verb
  • Know your worth and fight for it—wealth could soon be yours.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Fakhri Abu Diab fought for decades to save his home.
    — ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • Fakhri Abu Diab fought for decades to save his home.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Is the party worth fighting for at all?
    — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2026
  • Nothing this campaign fought for is far off.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Cox always fought for his players.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Todd Brook fights for his own life every day but sheds tears for his wife.
    — Dawn White, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The fight for kitchen storage space is never-ending.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 11 May 2026
  • These people have been fighting for 47 years.
    — NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • Invite family and friends to share, and there might be a fight for the last bite.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Inside, a young girl, 7 or 8, is fighting for each breath.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • One more football lifer fighting for his dream.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 10 May 2026
  • Almost three decades of fighting for every frame.
    — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
  • Girls’ sports exist because women fought for them.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • One of the fights for me was my resistance to using a walking aid to get around.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • First there was the fight for independence!
    — Dan Gelston, Fortune, 13 June 2026
  • Now his owner is fighting for justice.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Many tried to remain in Germany, but their right to stay had to be fought for on the ground.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
  • Many leaders say this is needed as the fight for equal rights is ongoing.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • But underlying it all was the sense that this is more than a fight for Joshua.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Their father’s words are a reminder of how to fight for unity and find common ground.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Illinois will keep standing up and fighting for the rights of our people.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Gebala is awake but still fighting for survival after four brain surgeries.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the nation is fighting for its life in the tournament.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Another is fighting for his life.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
  • Another is fighting for his life.
    — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • The fight for fair representation is far from over.
    — Jon Harris Maurer, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • At the time, an agent sent her the script for a film that saw two women fighting for the attention of a male lead.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • And if someone bothers Anaia, Racine is there to fight for her.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Women are still fighting for equality in a thousand ways, equal pay among them.
    — Miami Herald, 2 June 2026

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