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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.
Not a single person in the media--and trust me, this was an Ink-Stained-Wretchathon--seemed even remotely interested to see how Bush was sparring with yet another New England TV reporter.
It wasn't until August 1996, after four decades of courtroom sparring, that a jury finally ordered the industry to pay damages to a smoker for ruining his health.
The gloomy Democratic spin: The constant sparring over character issues makes them both less likable.
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.