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Example sentences for: bout

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When the girlfriend (Frankie Ingrassia) of Paul's lesbian sister Tammy (Jessica Campbell) has a bout of homosexual panic and throws herself at the unwitting jock, the vindictive Tammy jumps into the race as a third candidate, adopting a nihilist "Who Cares?"
Lewis won the close bout in a unanimous decision , making him the first undisputed titleholder since 1992.
After a bout of jealous banter, the doctor declares a smug faith in his wife's fidelity, whereupon Alice--who has been smoking dope and quietly simmering--wallops him with the news that she once came this close to abandoning him and the couple's daughter for a soldier she locked eyes with at a resort hotel.
A writer chronicles his own long bout with depression, a period when he couldn't eat and was afraid to stand up or shower.
He was a teen-age hood in New Orleans--his (terrible) autobiographical movie, I'm Bout It , hints that he was a major crack-house operator--and he likes to say that his music is "authentic."