How do you use the word "fight" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fight": Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it. The argument ended in a fight.

Fight Meaning

/faɪt/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbSenses relating to physical conflict:

verbSenses relating to physical conflict:, To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

Sentence Examples

Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it.

The argument ended in a fight.

The fight for his release gathers momentum each day.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

scrap defend battle

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The children had a small ____ over the toy, but quickly made up afterward.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The community is determined to ____ for the preservation of the local historic park and its trees.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English fighten (“to fight”), from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”). Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Danish fægte (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons)”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fekte (“to fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I have fought a good fight." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:7:

"Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:12:

"His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome." — 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:

"was left to fight his way through the world." — 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

"And so we made their grave where they should lie Close side by side, as they had fought their tank Through every fight, arm touching arm. We made it deep, that nothing of the conflict they had left above Should break into their peace." — 1953, Revd. Waldo E. L. Smith, What Time the Tempest: An Army Chaplain's Story, page 244:

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