Example sentences for: duel

How can you use “duel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Critics discern little logic in the story, in which two men (John Travolta and Sean Penn) duel over an alcoholic woman (Robin Wright Penn).

  • Yet even Thornburgh acknowledges that Starr is "overmatched" in his duel.

  • John Law, a Scotsman, financier, and high-rolling gambler, on the run from England after a fatal duel, saw the possibility of promoting this distant marshland as a paradise.

  • "The result: the six-year duel between Clinton and Saddam has reached a point of no return.

  • Hardly anyone now remembers why Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought a duel, or why Andrew Johnson was almost voted out of office.


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