How to Use fighter in a Sentence

fighter

noun
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  • Lawrence was a fighter, had street smarts and a great sense of humor.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Other fighters weighed in with takes on the main event.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Hamas fighters have nowhere to fall back to in the face of an attack by Israel.
    — Javed Ali, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Tom Cruise in a fighter jet brought audiences back to the movies in a big way.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The bodies of around 1,000 Hamas fighters were found in Israel.
    — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
  • From the jump, Feliciano knew he was meant to be a fighter.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Place a $5 wager on any fighter with a 40-1 odds boost.
    — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • Kyiv has pushed the West to provide fighter jets and long-range missiles.
    — Susie Blann, ajc, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That’s when members of each fighter’s teams rushed into the ring.
    — oregonlive, 12 June 2023
  • Prigozhin set May 10 as the deadline for the withdrawal of his fighters.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • In one of the early matches that night, a fighter’s headgear came loose.
    — Zoë Bernard, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
  • Back then, voters didn’t know what to expect and took a chance on a guy who came across as a fighter.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Paul, Tyson and other fighters will meet and greet fans after their weigh-in.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The Israeli government has said that about half of those killed there have been fighters.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • And a sculpture of Christ is crucified on a fighter jet.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Cap is able to interact with the new hangers, which will house F-35 fighter jets next year.
    — Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In those same years, Will the fighter also became a father.
    — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2022
  • His death echoes the loss of his grandfather, a U.S. fighter pilot who was killed in service.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In the current conflict, both sides maintain that their own fighters do not rape.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
  • Above the desk, a Second World War fighter plane, wings in flames, careens toward the window.
    — Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Belgium also pledged on Tuesday to give Kyiv 30 F-16 fighter jets over the next four years.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Have your staff had any dealings with either Hamas fighters or I.D.F. soldiers over the past month?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Those who knew Fulbright described him as a fighter and a warrior.
    — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Players have to look for openings in the back-and-forth and use those to find out more about the world and Bloom, my fellow resistance fighter.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In the next two months, Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line more than six hundred times.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This image is a screen capture of the UAP observed in a video of the flyby captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Benjamin said many of the Hamas fighters are orphans due to Israeli attacks.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Hezbollah was central to Iran’s strategy in Syria, with thousands of its fighters deployed to support Assad’s regime over the last decade.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to the support included in the latest package, Denmark has also been a key contributor to Ukraine's F-16 fighter jet fleet, alongside the Netherlands.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024

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