Example sentences for: fist

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

  • Beyond a preschool visit to a local dairy, my first assembly line was at the Hershey's chocolate factory, and it was perfect--incredibly loud and with a cocoa aroma as thick as a fist.

  • Reform and Orthodox Jews come to blows at the Western Wall; followers of different Christian traditions break into fist fights over the rights to millimeters of space inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

  • To hold one's fist stiffly in the air in a gesture of ridiculous defiance while the bass amplifier thundered and the guitar shrieked and our man on tenor sax honked deliriously, and to see a barroom audience respond with shouts and their own idiotic fists in the beery air--that was to laugh.

  • "Your freedom to use your fist stops at the edge of my face" is a recognition of the universal duties of forbearance that lie at the heart of the libertarian code.

  • The phrase Das pabt wie die Faust aufs (not ins) Auge, lit. That goes like a fist into the eye, is interesting from a semantic viewpoint.


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