How to Use altercation in a Sentence

altercation

noun

• Banks said he got involved in an altercation about a month ago when the fire alarm went off at night.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• The source of the black eye is often a blow to the area, whether caused by an altercation, fall, or impact by a hard object.
  — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
• Shay and Leviss get into an altercation, and Shay changes her flight home to avoid being on the same one.
  — Hannah Selinger, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
• On the street near the Eagle Rock village, Gary told me he’d been kicked out for an altercation and is back living on the street.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• Four other women make their way over to them to break up the altercation.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 7 May 2024
• This marks the second moment in the last few days that the league has had to suspend players for an on-court altercation.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
• Nikola then shoved Markieff in the back, starting an altercation between the two teams on the court.
  — Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• During the altercation, the woman fought back, took the weapon from Tranchant and stabbed him, then fled to safety, deputies said.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• The altercation Monday night started in the mall and moved outside where shots were fired, Healey said.
  — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2022
• The altercation took place in a club lounge just outside the court at Phoenix's Footprint Center.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• The altercation ended with one of the workers shooting and killing Reynolds.
  — Jessica Anderson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
• The footage captured Moore grab a bottle of iced tea and bring it to the counter, where the altercation occurred, according to Jones.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
• His family has requested the body cam footage of the altercation, but has not been able to view it.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
• The city’s police chief said the children appeared to be coming home from school and were caught in an altercation that started on the bus.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
• Kennedy said the shooting stemmed from an altercation between Brown and Ward.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• What injuries, if any, each man suffered was not included in the release, nor was the cause of the altercation.
  — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 17 Sep. 2024
• The fatal altercation occurred in the area of 7 Mile and Kelly, around 9:35 a.m on Monday.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Phillips said Tran did not appear to take anything from the women, and is not believed to have been injured in the altercation.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
• Six youths were involved in the incident that led to the altercation, the department said in a news release.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• This is a repeat of the 2023 sketch where Mikey Day and Quinta Brunson had a traffic altercation.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
• The two had a previous altercation in which the suspect fired a gun in the air to scare his older brother away, police said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 1 Mar. 2024
• Footage was captured of the altercation that occurred near a baggage claim area.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 7 May 2024
• Footage of the minute-long fight shows the altercation began as Hunt was walking away from a pay-by-the-hour motel room and Walker rushed at him from behind.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2023
• The two men got into a physical altercation, and then shots were fired.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Feb. 2023
• That altercation played out in front of Trump, who is not required to attend the trial, but did so on Tuesday and Wednesday.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
• An altercation at the gas station allegedly led to a shooting that left one person dead in the road.
  — Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2022
• The staff and students are happier and there are less altercations.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the first altercation shown in the videos, multiple officers shout at Nichols to lie down, though he is already pinned to the ground from shoulders to feet.
  — Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• The sole witness to the altercation was the car’s driver, who testified at the trial through an Urdu language translator.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
• Despite the scene taking place in daytime, the darkness of the overcast sky and far distance of the camera from the altercation work together to make the men look like battling silhouettes, or shadow puppets projected onto the landscape.
  — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025