(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
(2) Joyce was arrested in March after being allegedly involved in a brawl at a bar at the House of Commons, but prosecutors took no action against him.
(3) A randomised trial was conducted to assess the value of sending a mobile coronary care unit (MCCU) to all emergency calls other than those for children or for patients injured in road-traffic accidents or brawls.
(4) Uefa has charged both nations following the ensuing mass brawl but the controversy continued on Thursday.
(5) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
(6) When these two men-children confronted one another with violent intent in a press conference at the Olympiahalle, less than an hour after Chisora's sanctioned brawl with Vitali Klitschko, they knew exactly what they were doing.
(7) (One witness to the encounter described the two leaders as like "lads looking for a brawl outside a pub on a Friday night").
(8) Cue mass brawl after the inevitable German penalty shoot-out victory.
(9) There have also been mass escapes, countless self-harm attempts and brawls leading to one guard being suspended, according to incident logs obtained under freedom of information laws.
(10) Rose, who sparked the first brawl after clashing with Willian and was booked, said he was sorry for how the game may have looked to young viewers.
(11) He said he believed a brawl was breaking out when “all of a sudden a guy comes up with a knife ... stabs me there [motioning to his neck] I push him off and blood is going everywhere”.
(12) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(13) Cracks appear in cabinet as same-sex marriage splits Abbott's frontbench Read more The rolling brawl caps off a terrible week for the Abbott government, with the instability set to roll on into next week’s new parliamentary session.
(14) In 36% the situation was characterized by brawling or chasing.
(15) For a few minutes the brawling was as pronounced as at any England game in recent years and, though riot police arrived to divide the two sets of supporters, trouble flared again after Barkley’s deflected shot had given England the lead.
(16) A drunken brawl was in progress and as Cohn opened the cab door one of the guys reeled over the gutter and threw up over his trouser leg.
(17) During the ensuing brawl with the audience, eight people were injured.
(18) Law graduate 1954-55 Served in Indochina as paratroop lieutenant 1956 Youngest French MP (Poujadist movement), volunteer lieutenant in Algeria 1957 Implicated in French army torture during a three-month tour of duty in Algeria 1958 Loses right eye in electoral brawl, defeated in general elections 1972 Establishes the National Front party 1974 Polls 0.62% (190,000 votes) in presidential election 1976 Inherits fortune from NF supporter after court battle 1984 Becomes MEP 1986 MP (loses seat in 1988) 1987 Claims that Nazi concentration camps were 'a mere detail' of second world war 1990 Fined the equivalent of £160,000 for incitement to racial hatred 2000 Banned from holding political office for a year after attacking a woman Socialist candidate 2002 Polled 18%(5.5 million votes) in presidential election
(19) Uefa has charged the Serbian and Albanian Football Associations after the brawl involving players, supporters and stewards was sparked by a drone carrying the insignia of so-called “Greater Albania”, with the governing body expected to enforce heavy sanctions.
(20) As for the man in the middle of the brawl, he was among the few people remaining calm.
Brawn
Definition:
(n.) A muscle; flesh.
(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
(n.) A boar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(2) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
(3) Campaign magazine says: “To help propel an agency to the top through its strategic work takes some doing, but to keep it there for ten years demonstrates a scary strength of will.” When they named her as top media planner for the second year they wrote “the brains behind the brawn of MediaCom her impact and influence on the business remain second to none”.
(4) It was taken over by Brawn GP, who went on to win the constructors' title in the current season, which ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
(5) People need to aspire to become partners.” Miranda Brawn, a barrister and a director at Daiwa Capital Markets, said it was important for young people to have role models or mentors so they could see people like themselves in senior legal positions.
(6) Both teams played with three central defenders, which felt sophisticated, but this contest was all about brawn.
(7) But while Brawn supported the idea of an apprenticeship, she was worried that it would come up against snobbery, and there was a general concern among those at the roundtable that without support from the top of the legal profession it could lead to a two-tier system.
(8) Now 43, the boy from Quebec city has gained a little brawn and is no longer quite so feline and delicate.
(9) Their creative cuisine has seduced local Parisians and the place is packed out every lunchtime for dishes such as smoked haddock and cabbage chowder, pork brawn and prune pâté, and lamb chops with broad beans and crunchy puntarella (chicory).
(10) Indeed, with his mixture of brawn and earthy charm, Pratt is increasingly coming to resemble a more contemporary Hollywood star: Harrison Ford.
(11) It was not a party political debate, not left versus right, spooks vs traitors, or even brains versus brawn, though critics of GCHQ and the NSA could probably muster more GCSEs and PhDs on Thursday than the muscular "Spying is what spies do" spooks lobby, several of whom have "interesting" CVs.
(12) I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn.
(13) Fox's other new work is the film Bright Star, a biopic of John Keats and his love Fanny Brawne, whose mother Fox plays.
(14) Under the auspices of Peter Wright, the FIA’s president of the safety commission, the panel comprised such figures as Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Wurz.
(15) • One hour from £17, kayakrepublic.dk emilydevon Family rafting adventure in Sweden Facebook Twitter Pinterest Building our own timber log raft was a real family team exercise: our 13-year-old became the knots and rope expert, the 15-year-old provided the brawn and the eight-year-old verbally supervised.
(16) Last year's How to Train Your Dragon, for example, bravely centred on a wimpy geek – a feminised hero who relied on brain rather than brawn, thus winning the affections of a physically superior female.
(17) He has to rely on brains, brawn and guts, nothing else.
(18) They laboured to deal with Romelu Lukaku’s brawn, and the invention of Ross Barkley, Aaron Lennon and Kevin Mirallas in midfield, with team-mates forever galloping upfield in support.
(19) Wielding a mixture of legal and diplomatic brawn, the letter warned the institutions to "bear in mind … the sovereignty dispute and … the consequences of any unlawful hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Argentine continenal shelf in proximity to the Malvinas [Falkland] islands".
(20) The property boom, at least in the London area, is also pushing wages for bricklayers above £100,000 a year, according to a report by consultancy EC Harris, after a "brawn drain" of labourers during the recession has left the capital with a shortage of skilled workers.