Words similar to showdown

Example sentences for: showdown

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

The paper sees in the end-of-the-day exchanges between Starr and Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall "a dramatic prime-time showdown of legal heavyweights."
The article said that Jordan, which borders Iraq, has seen no signs of American military preparations and believes the United States may be deterred from fresh action by Iraq's intensive preparations over the past nine months for a "final showdown."
Russia's foreign minister met in Moscow, say the papers, with the Iraqi Deputy Premier and emerged to say that Russia has "a program" to resolve the UN showdown with Iraq that will allow weapons inspectors to return to their work there.
Before the night was over, Jennings was asking whether "we're going to see a real power struggle now between moderate Republican governors and the leadership in Congress," and ABC analyst George Will was predicting a showdown in 2000, with moderates rallying around George W. Bush.
Even after the superpowers' 1962 showdown led to an easing of tensions, the planet still had a series of nuclear scares, such as the October 1973 nuclear alert--which happened on the detente-minded watch of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.