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    fight


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    1. She didn’t like that he was going after a killer, and sometimes they would fight about it while I was in the other room, playing with Legos


    2. When they said ‘I Do’ they were in a mood, once they get into a fight and they continue to have more challenges in life, that mood is gone


    3. Also, because much stress is now psychological or emotional, there's nothing obvious to run away from or fight and so the stress hormones build up in the body with damaging effects


    4. Everyone was focused on the fight except for Ackers, who turned his head and looked at the sword sticking out of the wall


    5. This was the type of fight he lived for


    6. His head was turned away from it as he was watching Scar fight Nancy and Silence


    7. ‘Okay, so I didn’t fight over Dan, but I at least kept my self-respect


    8. “We better get out of here,” Nancy said as the guards continued their fight with Big Petey and the rest of the team


    9. Johnny brought up his hand to the earpiece, it must have broken during the fight because he couldn’t hear Ackers whining and yelling at him


    10. Even so, he would fight back until he died, and she would probably expect no less

    11. Was he willing to risk an all out fight?


    12. Termites and most ants are enemies and will fight each other


    13. himself might say it was faith in his loving God of all mankind and all the good Karma accrued from fighting the good fight


    14. between the wars to be able to fight in neither one of them, I watched most of the


    15. Once again there was no sign of a fight


    16. " In spite of knowing she was totally illegal and would be erased if found out, she would fight for survival if she had to wouldn't she? That survival instinct had certainly been cloned with her hadn't it?


    17. Melinda had followed Theo's rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?


    18. Let's go start a fight


    19. taught to fight and win


    20. ‘Don’t fight it

    21. I might have to fight her over that


    22. "We may have to fight them for it," she said, as she used her android to hand Alfred's android a projectile weapon


    23. fears that lie within, you have to fight against that and I'm here


    24. Schools of spiritual development are no different to the army: They teach you how to fight but never for your personal interest; it is always for a supposedly superior authority


    25. As I already know, Henry was too young to be called up and, from what he’d told me before, I knew he wasn’t happy about this at the time but, Maureen for one, tells me how glad she was that he couldn’t go and fight


    26. The Staas Privateers and the UN fleet have brought the fight to the Squidies' home system


    27. I had to fight back


    28. If you eat them, you will have to fight hard in order to resist certain temptations


    29. fight the current as it carried him away but the river only grew stronger as it


    30. “I have taken a vow never to fight again

    31. It is you who wishes to fight


    32. the wolf because he did not have the strength to fight through the night


    33. One of the best ways to release resistance isn’t to fight it or try


    34. into the stands above the stadium floor to watch the fight


    35. The announcer stopped the fight and told Son to come forward


    36. ordered the top ranking officers in his army to join the fight to kill Son


    37. history of our fight for liberty


    38. "Fight with what? A hakken perhaps? That would get pretty violent, but there are probably places where they do


    39. The OAAU was an organization rivaled Thanksgiving feasts, or how we held our elders in focused on the fight for human rights of Afro-Americans and such high regard—the highest in fact, or how arriving on promoting cooperation among Africans and people of African time to an event was never as important as showing up in descent in the Americas


    40. A little pulse started beating in her head as the adrenalin prepared her body for flight or fight

    41. And wished he had the strength to fight


    42. He has a very strong will- that should help him fight the infection


    43. He knew he had no chance, but he would put up a fight anyway


    44. Now that he was in it, he was very aware that he was nothing like the heroes he used to read about, courageous, mighty of thew, able to fight on in spite of grievous injuries and with an endless supply of knowledge of whatever enemy they faced


    45. The concern in her voice nearly sets off the tears again … I fight them back and try for a positive tone of voice as I reply


    46. The good news is, a hyadune is smart enough to know when it can and when it can't win the fight with a human


    47. He’s a good man to have about you in a fight … and you never know what you might meet with


    48. Only that you were at school with Berndt and are a good man to have around in a fight


    49. I want the same thing, and I will fight to get it if I have to, yes Kate


    50. JOYCE: Is it correct that you were faced with a predicament - if you fight him, you run the risk of being beaten up, and if you don't fight him, you have consented to having sex with him?














































    1. Fighting the pull of gravity becomes more challenging with age


    2. Aiko's father blows a reed whistle and the fighting stops


    3. Thousands of generations ago, fleeing or fighting in stressful situations was not a good option for a female who was pregnant or taking care of offspring, and women who developed and maintained social alliances were better able to care for offspring in stressful times


    4. Her mother thought Violet was the most adorable thing in the world, even more adorable than three white kittens fighting over jelly beans


    5. Scar advanced on Silence who was watching him in a ready fighting stance


    6. None of the nearby stores were open yet and there was a soft morning mist that added to the eerie calm that contrasted strongly with all the fighting and explosions they had just left behind


    7. but I can't prove I went over to the coast and not down to Bridgwater? What if no-one remembers seeing me? Fighting down the panic this thought sets off, I try to find of something safer to think about


    8. Spray this on the plants leaves, this increases the energy level of the plants, assisting them in fighting off pests


    9. After sleeping penniless on the roof of a YMCA with the pigeons, he finally earned some money fighting forest fires as a volunteer


    10. himself might say it was faith in his loving God of all mankind and all the good Karma accrued from fighting the good fight

    11. One of the few unarmed forces in the world, they had the utmost regard of the European superstar policeman; fighting a tidal wave of international organized crime with only their bare hands, hopelessly outnumbered, out-gunned and underfunded, technology from the stone age, forensics from the middle ages


    12. " She was exaggerating obviously, but metaphorically I could see where she was coming from and I could see she was fighting back the tears as well


    13. MacKenzie was a lawyer, a friend of the Barcs, and he defended them, fighting class


    14. We are fighting a war, not just between civilizations, the mortal and the Angelic, but between stages of evolution


    15. I gasped, fighting the constriction in my throat, feeling the pain of tightening metal hoops across my chest


    16. Fighting for air I could only manage the faintest of whispers in reply to his question


    17. Still, so many of Talstan had died fighting the technology of the Americans, Chinese and Brazilians over the years


    18. A few hours later Josef, my nephew, holds two similar sticks and acts as if he were fighting with them


    19. “You mean they’re fighting? Fighting close to us here? Do you think it’s possible? Is the army, the real army, on its way?” For the first time in nearly a year I began to feel hope rekindled from the ashes of this otherwise cold and sterile life


    20. And as I started to explain how the spirits were fighting, a strange look came over the other’s faces

    21. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop


    22. explained that the only way to speak to the king was to win a fighting


    23. resistance to whatever you may be struggling with or fighting


    24. MacKenzie was a lawyer, a friend of the Barcs, and he defended them, fighting class actions and helping them to formulate their ideas


    25. He was fighting the infection that had engulfed his body


    26. The acid from Jake’s saliva had destroyed most of the bacteria, but some had entered his bloodstream and this was what he was fighting


    27. “Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; fighting all day long he oppresses me (Psalm 56:1)


    28. ’ She replied, scepticism fighting with humour in her voice


    29. But the others were still there, still fighting over the leese


    30. Daniel explained his thoughts to the riders concluding with the fact that he knew, ‘we can’t penetrate their hide, but if we could get a lucky shot and take out one of their eyes, then we would stand a better chance fighting them

    31. It was then that he saw something fly by him and incinerate all the dragons he was fighting with


    32. It seems that five years ago, in your state of Oregon, the burning and fighting was at its peak


    33. He is 6’4”, 300 lbs of the meanest, fiercest fighting machine on this earth


    34. As the eulogy issued forth, my eyes met with those of the bishop and he looked at me with such an expression of sympathy I found myself swallowing and gulping and fighting to gain control


    35. you nor the person you are fighting with will have a clear understanding of what the issue is or


    36. Fair fighting leads to resolution in most cases


    37. We have come from across the sea to ask for your aid in fighting the black menace on our shores


    38. She and her dragon, Lady Ursula, promised they would not engage in any fighting


    39. In the galleries up above the assembled politicians there was a veritable host of media reporters, who were all fighting and scrapping for the best vantage points


    40. James was starting to think that maybe they had stumbled upon another large force of blacks that had been kept hidden till they were up to fighting strength

    41. Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains


    42. If she wanted to avoid fighting, she would have to answer some questions


    43. He and Kai were back to back, holding their own; the fighting was savage and brutal


    44. "I followed her," he said, fighting back tears, "at least a week before she filed


    45. The warriors inside the house were fighting a very large Scather barring the way


    46. fighting wars, electing the same control freaks who did nothing for the country


    47. She knew with a certainty that she wanted him to touch her, and she was fighting against the overwhelming urge to touch him


    48. Now that they were working together instead of fighting, she was inspiring to be around once again


    49. There were stories circulating around from Lord Tarak’s men about her fighting ability and upon finally seeing her, Altera seriously doubted them


    50. I’ve had to stop him fighting off boyfriends in the past














































    1. But their fights had always ended, after the screaming in three languages and sometimes attacks of paralysis and the taunting that caused


    2. I feel great, like being born again! Sandra Anderson is a revolutionary cosmonaut, who fights against evil all over the universe


    3. Her stories are structured in a very unusual way: I have written down in a separate notebook memories, fantasies, as well as dreams of mine and I have classified them in certain categories: Start of story – Main events – Secondary events – Cosmic truths – Fights – Dialogues – Space and time – End of story


    4. The contacts I noticed were few and they were all in the second story: a) I write and illustrate a scene where Sandra fights with gigong sticks


    5. Her eyes flick open as she fights the end of the day


    6. Fights off foreign invaders in the body


    7. There were no fights, no disagreements, nor was there any petulant posturing, but nonetheless, during their long dawn conversations they became aware of a doubt nagging away at them beneath their true, true love


    8. about chimpanzee fights that may be relevant here


    9. Honesty fights with sense, and sense loses, ‘Much the same as you, actually


    10. As he reaches the end of each line of the song Billy fights back tears, fights back images of artificial ventilation and a hand hovering over an electrical switch

    11. Again, Chrissie tenses as her stomach revolts to the sound of his voice, her knuckles white, gripping on the sheet of the bed in which she is lying, she fights for control


    12. Collingston had no security staff, so when fights broke out, (and they did on a daily


    13. She herself broke up too many fights to count over the years, and her reputation


    14. “She was his sex pet, and she kept him well supplied, everyone on the block as well as everyone in the house could hear that just as well as their fights


    15. There were fights over garden boundaries and neighborhood sentries and raids by the constables


    16. The madness of it suddenly strikes Davie as funny and he fights to hold back the laughter


    17. These fights were


    18. 3Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on


    19. Besides, who he fights with was his business, she just wanted to know what he meant by that last remark


    20. The Spirit of God will bring people together as a strong army that fights together with a single purpose

    21. "She fights the infection like few can


    22. the Lord who fights the battle


    23. wants contented villagers, and to that end fights as best


    24. spouse and he is starting the fights because of his own


    25. She fights tears as she works


    26. A farmer fights the elements, the heat, the hail, the dearth of rain or sometimes too much rain, a late thaw, or wind storms


    27. well, which makes the fights more interesting


    28. The result were exciting fights with varying results


    29. Fighters also fought in a tournament style as well, which took 3 fights to win the


    30. The fights would

    31. Don’t start a business that fights


    32. I’ve heard you also start fights, spread it through blood


    33. They quarreled, picked fights, stomped out of the house in anger


    34. “The Battalion is to leave immediately for France what do you think of my news now then worth waiting for wasn’t it?” There was now sheer pandemonium and delight in our hut lads were cheering slapping each other on the back play fights had broken out and now people from other huts were packing into ours to see what was going on


    35. After an assortment of injuries to his legs and his stomach and having had both sides of his face opened and drained from fights in battle, we knew we had to face this dilemma


    36. Many of his fights were with a nearby cat called Sylvester


    37. He’d seen fights in Salverford before, and of course he’d been in one, but this was different


    38. And in the female fights especially, looking good meant everything


    39. She didn’t like the fights themselves, but she observed the spectators


    40. He knew that he wasn’t exactly a paragon of virtue in the arena, but at least he tried to keep his fights short

    41. It would ruin the foundations of the Phoenix Project if anyone found out that they allowed weapons into fights


    42. A montage of images from Raven’s fights played as the coarse narration continued


    43. “Don’t drag your fights out, Millicent


    44. “He supervises the fights


    45. All prisoners had their terms shortened to five years and they started to introduce fights to create prison space and to placate the public


    46. Without allocated space for fights, they had to clear away dinner tables and hold other prisoners back without ropes or barriers


    47. Rumour has it that despite the fights being so brutal there, the living conditions at West Belsen are far better than at Salverford


    48. It was Abbott who started the whole celebrity culture of the Phoenix Project, publicising fights, et cetera


    49. Whether they go into the fights or not, those prisoners need disposing of


    50. These people are not believed to have died in the well-publicised fights, but in underground ‘death chambers’ and crematoria













































    1. After that, we read that God fought with two different


    2. They had fought even over that hypothetical case


    3. They had fought over children the most


    4. Many a brothers have fought court battles for it


    5. Travis fought back tears


    6. fought the Turk and the Christian, drinking their blood in his fury after battle, they,


    7. front end as the tyres fought for grip, and then, amid a sea of spray, she bit hard into


    8. He fought like crazy


    9. They told me that The Kid even sat with me during the dark hours, watching blood pound through the artery in my thin skinned neck as my body fought for oxygen under the onslaught of fever and infection


    10. Over those first grinding miles I fought against the bonds, twisting my arms and wrists against the tape, but all that I did was make the tape coil tighter and tighter so that it cut into my skin

    11. The truck would idle for a moment, waiting for traffic to clear or for lights to change, and as the truck moved off I spat oaths of vengeance in my head, while I fought for breath through my clogged nose


    12. They were about to execute her when Apollo stormed in and fought the guards, yelling over and over how he wouldn't let them hurt her


    13. Some fought back, but eventually they grew weary and resigned


    14. The car kicked once and lifted at the front end as the tyres fought for grip, and then, amid a sea of spray, she bit hard into the tarmac and hauled her graceful weight forward at an ever increasing rate of knots


    15. Standing in front of him was a man he had once known as a brother, a man for whose freedom he had fought, but who now visited upon him the solitude of imprisonment and Citizen Marat’s never ending, reedy, mechanical voice


    16. Generation after generation has fought to continue their rule


    17. They have fought to continue to stay in power


    18. has fought her way through jobs for the boys,


    19. They fought a mighty mutant bear that had been sent to destroy my eggs


    20. He had indeed fought a fierce battle

    21. The girl fought her way out of the clutches of the black; and she fell as it passed over a mountain range


    22. I try to take my mind off it by focussing on the countryside flowing past us … on the conversations we had yesterday … on what I have learned of Errd … anything … time passes in an agony of gritted teeth and fought back tears


    23. All the Dragons of Light fought with carefully planned strikes on the dark devils


    24. They fought valiantly, even tho they were out numbered 10 to 1


    25. Jackson feared he would loose Sarah and he fought like a madman trying to get to her side


    26. They fought with a ferocity that startled him, taking out 9 of his dragons within minutes


    27. They fought like mad but the battle was beginning to take a toll even on them


    28. The bastards had grown bold, and smart; they had another camp we knew nothing about and they attacked without warning, Valotin and I fought thru 20 of the beasts, but they were everywhere


    29. They fought to the very end, valiantly trying to turn the tide


    30. James gave them detailed descriptions of their base camp and the strength of the beasts they fought

    31. As they fought, James thought he saw some more dragons coming to their aid


    32. Sarah and Jackson were fierce in their attacks; they gave no quarter, and fought skillfully


    33. They were the best players in the Belrampur Municipal School and had fought


    34. The intensity of these feelings surprised and scared her; and she too fought for control


    35. Watching her movements as she fought the Scathers stirred him deeply; he found her enticing; almost erotic to watch


    36. 'I wasted my studies, fought with my parents, threw away my career


    37. She is a fighter and a very formidable one I might add; I have fought by her side on many occasions


    38. He applied his strong will and fought to control his emotions


    39. It was the young man who had fought at Rayne’s side during the incursion, Tarak noted


    40. waste of money because the children had fought

    41. They fought fiercely for at least five minutes when suddenly the Scather rushed forward swinging his sword wildly


    42. She let him think she hadn’t seen what was happening, and fought off his attempts to find out the details of where she had been and what she had seen


    43. ’ He announced with the air of a man who has fought and killed a dragon for his beloved


    44. “What happened that you fought for extinction? This is very difficult to believe


    45. But, gritting his teeth, he fought back tears and battled on like a soldier on the front line


    46. Lying in the bed, Chrissie muffles a scream as she feels again the smarting of the cuts he inflicted to her arms and hands as she fought to defend herself


    47. Bram handed over the pendant as Tom fought the car along the


    48. fought with Roman, even though it was futile


    49. ‘But she’s so tiny! How could she possibly have fought him off?’ Williams protested


    50. I fought off the sensation of gagging













































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    Synonyms for "fight"

    fight battle conflict engagement combat fighting scrap competitiveness contend struggle defend fight back fight down oppose agitate campaign crusade press push fray fracas dispute brawl melee disagreement riot controversy action confrontation affair affray contest boldness mettle hardihood clash challenge scramble resist buffet

    "fight" definitions

    a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war


    the act of fighting; any contest or struggle


    an aggressive willingness to compete


    an intense verbal dispute


    a boxing or wrestling match


    be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight


    fight against or resist strongly


    make a strenuous or labored effort


    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