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Example sentences for: sparring

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The pièce-de-résistance of the rotating phrase, however, came when my own step-daughter told me of an aggravated duet (or should that be roundelay?) between herself and her habitual sparring partner.
His sparring partner was Clive Crook of the Economist , a publication that has repeatedly asserted that U.S. stock prices are not only excessively high but dangerously so and that the history of Japan's notorious "bubble economy" is being repeated.
Every article also interprets the furious GOP-Democratic sparring as a depressing harbinger.
The gloomy Democratic spin: The constant sparring over character issues makes them both less likable.
Sparring over their role in instigating high-school gun battles, they fell into lock step on one point: God save us from regulation by Bob Barr and Tom DeLay.