Duel

//ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl//

"Duel" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Kyouichi Saionji, who he supposed would win the duel, has lost.

After the second innings, the opposing pitcher recovered too, and it turned into a pitching duel.

"Dad, this a real sword?" "Of course, it is a duel after all."

Surrounded by hordes of vampires, Christopher Columbus once had an epic sword duel with Count Dracula in the latter's castle. After the Count cut off Columbus's hand, Columbus calmly picked it up, put it back in place, and proceeded to best the Count.

There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.

His son had been killed in a duel.

This is the decisive duel.

Let's win this duel.

I'm not going to fight a duel.

Tycho Brahe lost part of his nose in a sword duel.

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I have often thought since, how different my fate might have been, had I not fallen in love with Nora at that early age; and had I not flung the wine in Quin’s face, and so brought on the duel.

It has been 200 years, minus a few days, since Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel here. Weehawken and the duel have been tied together in an often-uncomfortable knot ever since.

a sniper duel

But it leaves them with a few destroyers, the American destroyer force is falling back, and then you have the two cruiser lines with their respective battleships coming in for the big duel.

Apple comes out swinging in the duel of the data titans [title]

The two dogs were duelling for the bone.

The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.

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