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Example sentences for: sparring

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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.
Maybe with the head-on sparring you can train these jerks one by one.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also spoke up for President Mohammed Khatami, usually his sparring partner, who has been trying to bring the government, police, and judiciary in line with law.
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.
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.