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Fist


Definition:

  • (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
  • (n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
  • (n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
  • (v. t.) To strike with the fist.
  • (v. t.) To gripe with the fist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (2) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (3) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
  • (4) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (5) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
  • (6) I get to make jokes and pound my fist and get retweets and faves because I’m a comedian.
  • (7) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
  • (8) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (9) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
  • (10) 62 min: Lyon win another corner, which McGregor fists away cleanly.
  • (11) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
  • (12) He had poor head control, hypertonia, and persistent fisting, and died at age 2 months.
  • (13) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
  • (14) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
  • (15) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (16) During the first 2 min of hypoxia, glucose consumption was increased to twice the normal, and during the fist 2 min of hypercapnia, the corresponding value was less thane third of the normal.
  • (17) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
  • (18) Two groups of substernal goiters should be considered fist; the "simples" ones localised in the anterior and superior part of the mediastin.
  • (19) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
  • (20) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.

Fistfight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump encouraged his supporters to get into fistfights with protesters , and seems to fantasize about doing the same to CNN .
  • (2) The primary specific causes of these injuries were fistfights (nearly 30%), sports (over 20%), and vehicles (about 15%).
  • (3) Most of his conflicts have been highly personal: during a radio debate while running for the regional Duma in 2006, he got into a fistfight with his opponent, while his conflict with United Russia governor Kuivashev came after Roizman's girlfriend and campaign manager, Aksana Panova, spurned the governor's advances, she told the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
  • (4) After the Labour MP Eric Joyce brawled in a bar at the House of Commons, political bloggers rated the best political fistfights .
  • (5) He was also slightly injured in a New York nightclub brawl and, earlier this year, was accused of being involved in a fistfight with Frank Ocean’s entourage over a parking spot at a West Hollywood recording studio.
  • (6) In a parliament that has long been known for altercations and fistfights, there were fears that the new set of MPs could prove more unruly than ever, especially after the commanders of two volunteer battalions active in the east had promised to solve their personal differences “like men” inside parliament.
  • (7) However, the deal soon fell apart, with fistfights breaking out in the auditing centre where disputed ballots are being assessed and that process being halted numerous times.
  • (8) Fistfights and shouting matches raged on throughout the morning as the two sides fought for control of the microphone.
  • (9) In 1995, Kusturica was involved in a fistfight on the beach in Cannes, after winning his Palme d'Or for Underground .
  • (10) The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine.
  • (11) These fistfights occurred not just when he was a young student but also when he was an "officer" – after he had joined the KGB.
  • (12) Foreigners: please be aware that your sudden awareness of our political fistfights is but a Twitter phenomenon.
  • (13) Plenty of female designers are bucking stereotypes, working, not just on family-friendly Wii titles, but on action adventures, filled with shoot-outs and fistfights.