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Example sentences for "fisticuffs"

Lexicographically close words:
fist; fisted; fistful; fistic; fisticuff; fists; fistula; fistulae; fistulas; fistulous
  1. Today her offspring with Master Fisticuffs are sturdy farmers in Silesia, but two of the three sons she had with the royal Prince, as well as the sons the royal Prince had with his second wife, Rosalie von Rauch, are degenerates.

  2. This species of wickedness, at last, resulted in the discharge of Leti, "but she decided to leave me a few souvenirs in the shape of fisticuffs and kicks.

  3. For in that case should I make a hail of fisticuffs to fly into his face.

  4. Bulliballock, make sign to him of a hail of fisticuffs upon the muzzle.

  5. The canon and the curate, however, prevented him, but the barber so contrived it that he got Don Quixote under him, and rained down upon him such a shower of fisticuffs that the poor knight's face streamed with blood as freely as his own.

  6. Present society is everywhere at fisticuffs with its own development.

  7. At fisticuffs we are equal, but not so with swords.

  8. Your fisticuffs are even better than your sword thrusts.

  9. And when two parties are watching to see who strikes the first blow, they are sure to come to fisticuffs from mere dirty fear of each other.

  10. Bodkins are too short for such fierce Bobadils," said Amyas; "they would close in so near, that we should have them falling to fisticuffs after the first bout.

  11. Intellectual bickerings further and heighten the happiness of congenial society, just as lovers' quarrels are a renewal of love, and fisticuffs a necessity of Marionette operas.

  12. Sancho retorted, and the goatherd rejoined, and the altercation ended in their seizing each other by the beard, and exchanging such fisticuffs that if Don Quixote had not made peace between them, they would have knocked one another to pieces.

  13. The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.

  14. He hated the flics, the Paris police, with whom he had, more than once, exchanged fisticuffs and clubbings.

  15. When the rail way strikers in Pittsburg stopped the trains, "killed" the locomotives, and burned the freight, there was no fisticuffs about it.

  16. When every statesman in our country was eagerly seeking a peaceful solution of the Hayes-Tilden dispute, it was not fisticuffs that they feared.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fisticuffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bout; boxing; brawl; fighting; infighting; ring; spar