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. This police unit was established to fight corruption.
4. And anyway, the Yankees are too scared of us to fight.
5. He's mad because they won't let him go fight the Yankees.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fight
 v.  contend with in battle or combat; war against
 v.  beat on somebody each other; quarrel
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  To those who have to fight them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  General Hood did more than stand and fight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
16  I'd like to fight him because he's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him.
17  This police unit was established to fight corruption.
18  It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
19  Education is the only weapon to fight the spread of the disease.
20  He was prepared to use any weapon to fight against his enemies.
21  If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
22  When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.
23  Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
24  The boy justified himself by saying he did not begin the fight.
25  It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill.
26  The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
27  Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
28  This discovery marks a quantum leap forward in the fight against cancer.
29  The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.
30  We will stand tall and fight for issues of concern to our community.