BRAWL in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for BRAWL, such as:

1. They got caught up in a street brawl.
2. He had been in a drunken street brawl.
3. In others, drunkards brawled and screamed.
4. Last week, two local men were killed in a brawl.
5. He was killed in a saloon brawl long before I was born.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRAWL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brawl
 n.  fight; noisy quarrel or fight; loud party
Classic Sentence:
1  He was killed in a saloon brawl long before I was born.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  And the Yankees would say they killed each other in a common drunken brawl over a girl in Belle's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  The brawl of passions and ignorances is quite another thing from the shock of progress.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
5  It was during one of these brawls that Stuart Tarleton had shot Cade Calvert and Tony Fontaine had shot Brent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  While exclaiming loudly against duels and brawls, they excited them secretly to quarrel, deriving an immoderate satisfaction or genuine regret from the success or defeat of their own combatants.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
8  No brawling," said the Knight, "it is but a friendly interchange of courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
9  Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
11  In others, drunkards brawled and screamed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  They got caught up in a street brawl.
2  He had been in a drunken street brawl.
3  Last week, two local men were killed in a brawl.
4  In today's frighteningly violent school climate, it may seem insensitive to approach brawling as a street sport.