FIGHT in a Sentence

Learn FIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
396 example sentences for FIGHT, such as:
1. To those who have to fight them.
2. General Hood did more than stand and fight.
3. We must fight this battle through to victory.
4. Soldiers got in a fight and busted up the bar.
5. They egged each other on to argue and to fight.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FIGHT
fight
 n.  a boxing or wrestling match
 v.  exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  And anyway, the Yankees are too scared of us to fight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  The Yankees may be scared of us, but after the way General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand branded as cowards before the whole world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Miss O'Hara--I--I had already decided that if we did fight, I'd go over to South Carolina and join a troop there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  To those who have to fight them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  He's mad because they won't let him go fight the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  The Yankees are recruiting men for frontier service to fight the Indians, recruiting them from among Confederate prisoners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  They were the ones who declared it was a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight" and they had had enough of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  When regimental officers, understanding the situation, saw a hard fight ahead, they wrote these men, telling them to rejoin their companies and no questions would be asked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  They could and did lick the Yankees every time the Yankees would stand and fight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  He had lost a third of his men in that fight and the remainder slogged tiredly through the rain across the country toward the Chattahoochee River.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  General Hood did more than stand and fight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  Scarlett was terrified when she realized how important this line had become, how fiercely Sherman would fight to take it, how desperately Hood would fight to defend it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  Unfortunately these drugs are quite toxic and hinder the body's ability to fight off infection.
2  I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready.
3  Baker suggested the administration wasn't raring for a fight.
4  It has been confirmed that Lewis's next fight will be against Bruno.
5  He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
6  Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
7  Critics of government policy argue that the new measures introduced to fight crime are simply papering over the cracks.
8  They egged each other on to argue and to fight.
9  Suddenly the argument developed into a real fight.
10  It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill.
11  The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption.
12  Instead of retaliating, he walks away leaving his team-mates to fight it out.
13  The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape.
14  Soldiers got in a fight and busted up the bar.
15  We must fight this battle through to victory.