Fight

My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.

Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill.

I have fought a good fight.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.

was left to fight his way through the world.

A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.

The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.

And so we made their grave where they should lie Close side by side, as they had fought their tank Through every fight, arm touching arm. We made it deep, that nothing of the conflict they had left above Should break into their peace.

to fight cocks; to fight one’s ship

He fought for the Democrats in the last election.

Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.

[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.

The government pledged to fight corruption.

I fought a sneeze as Max took my hand and led me into the chapel.

The higher the saturation, the more the colors fight, and the more users will be looking at your design instead of your content.

One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.

Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight?

I’m going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.

I’ll put up a fight to save this company.

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.

That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him.

Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]