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Example sentences for "brawl"

Lexicographically close words:
bravo; bravoes; bravos; bravura; braw; brawled; brawler; brawlers; brawling; brawls
  1. O foolish virgin and fair among the fallen, A ruin where satyrs dance, A garden wasted for beasts to crawl and brawl in, What hast thou done with France?

  2. Suppose, instead, the news had been brought to me that in a senseless brawl my son had been badly wounded-- or slain?

  3. Prince; "how dare you brawl and fight here!

  4. At last he perished in a drunken brawl by the hand of another Indian.

  5. It was obvious that the fray had originated in a brawl begun by the Hamiltons, who had insisted on forcing their way into Mistress Alison’s house.

  6. After all,’ he added, ‘it may be but a mere brawl about a wench!

  7. The nobles of Scotland are gathering to the front for the defence of their souls’ liberties, and the boldest spirit amongst them all keeps aloof here at Hermitage because of a foolish brawl with a weak enthusiast who bore him no real ill-will.

  8. He had escaped unobserved by the Bailie, immediately when the brawl was ended, yet not before I had recognised, in his wild features and shaggy red hair, our acquaintance Dougal, the fugitive turnkey of the Glasgow jail.

  9. A week later he was stabbed in a drunken brawl in Nottingham.

  10. As for the recent brawl out in the street--why, it seems that you are not to blame.

  11. Whose pains and ultimate lot the brawl in which he had taken part foreshadowed too clearly.

  12. Tidings of this brawl will reach the Emperor as fast as men can ride.

  13. Hush, Roger, or we shall have a brawl on our hands.

  14. From without and within the roar and the brawl waxed deafening.

  15. From a brawl at Vilna, when the stores were rifled, Gustav Bardot emerged with as many bottles of brandy as would have made a regiment drunk, and a supply of flour under which our horses staggered.

  16. He made it a point of honor to tell everything against himself: the brawl with the soldiers, the warrant out against him, his flight from the country.

  17. You never come, but you bring a brawl in your mouth.

  18. By my faith, this is none of the worst neither, for if he brawl and be beaten for it, it will in time make him shun it: For what brings man or child more to virtue than correction?

  19. His costume had suffered considerably from his late pursuits, and his appearance was by no means improved by a gash in his face received from a Manzanero in a brawl at Sauce Blanco.

  20. Sirrah," she cried severely to the former, "is this the first use you make of our hospitality, thus to brawl in the street underneath my very windows with our noble guest the Prince Ivan?

  21. Well you know that my brother is from home, or you dare not thus brawl in the very precincts of the palace!

  22. I presume, sir, so true a courtier will not brawl before ladies.

  23. It's unbecoming," said he, "in a man to brawl over the maid he wants to marry.

  24. He has become so irritable from repeated crossings that the mere mention of retrenchment or reform is a signal for a brawl between him and the tavern oracle.

  25. The neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of awe, admiration, and good-will, and when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity always shook their heads and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it.

  26. It was refused, and a brawl ensued, in which the assailants were repulsed.

  27. It would have been a pretty anecdote for the history of the Emperor Joseph, had he been discovered in a street brawl with a carman," said he to himself.

  28. I ween the end will prove this brawl did first arise Upon no other ground but only Diccon's lies.

  29. Yet there is one thing I have heard, a sordid pot-house brawl in the Opera House.

  30. The senate had met as usual that morning, and the meeting had degenerated into a fierce brawl between Anagnostes and Nicholas on the one side, and Germanos and Charalambes on the other.

  31. I will retire when I have danced the Morisco with the May Queen--the Cushion Dance with Dame Tetlow--and the Brawl with the lovely Isole de Heton.

  32. I was foolhardy enough to invite her to dance the brawl with me.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brawl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.