How to Use fisticuffs in a Sentence

fisticuffs

plural noun

• What’s a joint practice in the NFL without a few fisticuffs?
  — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2021
• Overall, the fisticuffs are more complex, but the new moves don’t always work well.
  — Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• There were some fisticuffs, some verbal back-and-forth, because the stakes of shooting Ben and Jen were so high.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• No, coming to fisticuffs is really more of a job for bootcut jeans — and Denise has a closet full of 'em.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 14 May 2020
• What if the runners broke into fisticuffs over a frustratingly slow trek up Main Street to the start line?
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2021
• Twitch has gotten into legal fisticuffs with bot-makers in the past.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 Sep. 2021
• The doors finally reopened and a game straight out of the 1970s walked in, fisticuffs and feistiness going hand in hand on the ice, madness and mayhem going on in the stands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• Of course, at some point, a left-line person would get irked that an anywhere person opted to park in the left-line parking lot, and fisticuffs would possibly fly.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• The film makes the most of its real-world locations (Quebec, Scotland and Iceland, with the reshoots done in Atlanta), practical stunt work and old-school fisticuffs.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• In the end, the movies’ biggest advertisement for themselves will have people talking less about Smith’s acting than about his fisticuffs.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
• Mantis shrimp are capable of their incredible feats of fisticuffs thanks to a spring-like mechanism built into their front legs.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 1 May 2021
• The legal fisticuffs came a few months after Day, through Jefferson, received a letter from an attorney for Prince’s estate.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• From a football standpoint, there are more fracases and fisticuffs in joint practices than games, diminishing some of their value.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• Amid school closures, teacher strikes and school board fisticuffs, her character, Ava Coleman — the school’s principal and the show’s comedic foil — put a humorous face on the frustrations of millions.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps that’s why, freshman hazing and drunken fisticuffs notwithstanding, Dazed and Confuseddoesn’t get weighed down with the enormous stakes of typical coming-of-age movies.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
• Customize your Kirby and engage in 2D fisticuffs with friends in local multiplayer—with Download Play, only one person has to own a copy of the title, which is nice.
  — PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2022
• Political gatherings are more likely to culminate in a song sung by a choir of pure voices than in fisticuffs between bearded men in barrooms.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• Gibson’s club in particular seemed to relish the brawls—often literal fisticuffs—Lowndes said.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• Amid a sluggish free-agent market, in a winter of player discontent and labor fisticuffs via press release, perhaps no player has been subject to a stranger market than Moustakas.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 6 Feb. 2018
• The standoff between the government and the parliament means little gets done; a new annual budget was passed in the last few days, but only amid quarrels and fisticuffs, according to local media.
  — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• There aren't many sports where containing personal mist and maintaining social distancing are more difficult than the Sweet Science of fisticuffs.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• Hockey has evolved into more of an exhibition of skill than of brute force, though physicality and occasional fisticuffs remain an appeal of the game.
  — oregonlive, 6 May 2022
• Both teams brought gritty physicality, on-court pettiness and smug commentary from their star players, as well as potential fisticuffs between two bench players.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
• In just two months, the Biden administration has shown a surprisingly strong appetite for rhetorical fisticuffs with America’s top adversaries.
  — John Hudson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
• Still, the fisticuffs are impressive, the runaway finale gives everyone something to do and this is arguably as close as the franchise has gotten to living up to its reputation as a gender-neutral/racially-diverse action blockbuster franchise.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Naturally, there is all manner of property damage, fisticuffs, and death-defying leaps as well as plenty of high-speed car chases and explosions, because that's what this franchise is ultimately all about: the characters and the amazing stunts.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
• Other potential responses from confronted motorists range from aggressive driving — tailgating, slowing down, cutting off, even bumping or colliding — to pulling off to the side of the road for screaming matches, fisticuffs or worse.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• The opposition parties are already failing to find common cause, with bickering between rival factions sometimes descending into fisticuffs.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2020
• Moments after a verbal exchange escalated into fisticuffs, the fighters were separated.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024