(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.
Fella
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I think this fella has got Crystal Palace stamped all over him – the way he moves, the way he chases, the way he works.
(2) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(3) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
(4) Shine, fellas, because no one’s letting you sing a verse.
(5) He tells his colleagues: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere fellas … I've just broken the Geneva convention."
(6) Richard Dawkins emailed to say, 'Nice one, fella.'"
(7) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
(8) Well it does, because let’s face it, a lot of time you’re watching fellas who’ve been out on the ale the night before.
(9) I met a nice fella in the Nottingham Naafi club, and he told me I was not to get married.
(10) "Unfortunately, no one will say that in advance and then some of them will go to the World Cup and play badly and say to you guys, 'I was bored' and you'll write and say 'poor fella'."
(11) Instead of slagging me off you want to try and spend a bit more time keeping your leggings on every time a fella so much as glances at you,” she told Sarah-Lou hours before she went into labour, before loudly putting in an order at the cafe.
(12) As you do that, you transfer the responsibility from the coaches to the players but then an hour before the game, there is a fella up the front telling them what to do.
(13) He's very, very professional, just a normal fella, really.
(14) The court heard in evidence that he was known in gangland circles as the Long Fella, and that he engaged in violence, intimidation and money laundering and benefited from the proceeds of prostitution.
(15) It shouldn’t be like this, but then I’ve heard all about this Grim Reaper fella and there’s no fooling him.
(16) "There was one fella I remember who was really upset because he'd got the one shoe that he wanted, but didn't have the other one.
(17) "There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down," he told the paper in Carmel, the California town where he served as mayor in the 1980s.
(18) He glows, you can’t really miss him when you do see him out there from a distance, and it’s like fluorescent blue when you see him up close.” Migaloo, whose name is an Aboriginal word for “white fella”, was the only known white whale in the world until 2011 when an all-white calf was filmed.
(19) You take a nicking on the chin when dispensed by a decent fella.
(20) Even the corner, the young fella [Ji], he can keep the ball much better if they have more desire.