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Example sentences for: melee

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The melee left at least seven students dead and incensed fears that cult-related violence is rising on Nigeria's university campuses.
A French soldier was seriously hurt during a melee as a mob of around 150 men tried to charge across the bridge to north Mitrovica as soldiers strung barbed wire across it.
( Slate 's Jacob Weisberg a night at the Iowa caucus, Walter Shapiro his experiences covering the melee, and William Saletan why McCain comes out looking better than Bradley despite getting fewer votes.)
Highlights from the melee included: 12 tractor-trailers set on fire, impromptu stripteases, giant bonfires with people leaping through the flames, looting of T-shirt vendors' booths, smashed ATMs, and a food fight with liberated soft pretzels.
But the story delays the news that two U.S. soldiers were wounded in the melee until after the "jump"--the continuation of the story on an inside page.