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"Bout" in a Sentence (23 examples)
A fussy referee can ruin a bout.
The fighter toughened up for the bout.
The wrestler had his right leg broken in a bout.
The bout turned out rough and neither boxer was going to win hands down.
A bout lasts about five minutes.
After five brutal rounds, the judges could not split the two fighters, and the bout was declared a draw.
Y ain't ya axed 'bout dat?
Tom and Mary's baby had a severe bout of croup, and had to be put in a humidicrib in hospital.
"Your Majesty, Ganon and his minions are not in the house!" "Whatcha talkin' 'bout?"
I'm good, how 'bout you?
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a bout of drought
a coughing bout
a long bout of the flu
The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
Jackson won lasting fame for his treatment of an alcoholic's painful disintegration in his first novel, The Lost Weekend, in which he suggested that the root of his protagonist's bouts with the bottle could be found in his repressed homosexuality.
Pope Francis was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital on Friday, February 14, 2025, after suffering from a bout of bronchitis for several days.
An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year’s world championships over questions about her eligibility to compete in women’s sports.
Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade […] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout.
It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. […]
They're talking bout you!
Maddy is bout to get beat up!
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