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Example sentences for: sparring

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At the end of class came a session of sparring (which I, alas, was not allowed to participate in).
When sparring with peer A she may utter screams that recruit massive support to defeat A. But against peer B she can scream her lungs out and nothing happens.
Balance was crucial in the sparring.
Every article also interprets the furious GOP-Democratic sparring as a depressing harbinger.
Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.