How to Use fistfight in a Sentence

fistfight

noun
  • A fistfight broke out in the stands.
  • He often gets into fistfights.
  • Aldridge himself wound up in fistfights in the streets.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Before the night was over, sirens blared as fistfights broke out.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • At one point the Saudis blamed the killing on a fistfight gone wrong.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
  • Big fistfight—red faces and people trying to pull their shirts off.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a mid-car chase front-seat fistfight between the brothers.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Bringing a branding iron to a fistfight?
    — William Earl, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Fighting for rebounds on the low block is a mix between a two-step and a fistfight.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
  • Flight attendants don`t sign up to get into a job for a fistfight.
    — NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
  • That might include a hallway fistfight or somebody pulling out a weapon.
    — Washington Post, 16 May 2021
  • What began as a schoolyard squabble is now a full-fledged fistfight.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
  • But that's an ongoing fistfight that concerns me all the time.
    — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But that's an ongoing fistfight that concerns me all the time.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • Sort of like losing a fistfight, then being forced to watch a boxing match with the guy who beat you up.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Saudi Arabia has said he was killed in a fistfight at the consulate.
    — Deb Riechmann, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • From a football perspective, this game would be a fistfight at the line of scrimmage.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • However, as the plane was making its way to the gate, a fistfight broke out between two men.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 10 May 2017
  • The blow sparked a fistfight in which Gay allegedly broke the other man’s jaw and nose.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2021
  • That pulling a weapon at a fistfight is a shameful act of cowardice and betrayal of a timeless code.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Disagreements like that had a way of getting out of hand in the hills, leading to a fistfight or gunplay.
    — Chris Offutt, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The next morning, the two groups got into a fistfight, which had to be broken up by the counsellors.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Abreau was able to knock the pipe away but Medizabal stabbed him during a fistfight.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Lee discovers Cho and knocks him out in the ensuing fistfight, but things do not look good.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Angels got into a fistfight with the Mariners and have been paying for it since.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
  • After a brief fistfight, the officer was knocked to the ground, and his bodycam was obscured.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Mastodon is the Atlanta metal band that brings elements of prog-rock and beer-bar fistfights.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 26 Sep. 2017
  • In turn, her disapproving boyfriend started a fistfight with the stranger, which spilled out into the aisle.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Chase Robinson, a passenger on the train, thought a fistfight had broken out and tried to break it up.
    — Madison Park, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • He was almost caught, ended up in a fistfight with Mark, and now is the target of an island-wide search.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021

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