Sentence examples for a punch was from inspiring English sources

Hardly a punch was pulled, but if there was a chief pugilist, it was Mr. Spitzer.

Legs were never less than four feet apart when a punch was thrown.

I could not, of course, but what struck me like a punch was that I did not care.

John Creighton of the Walkabout bar said of the altercation: "The information I've got is a punch was thrown – a swing was thrown – however we don't think that connected".

There was a lot of pushing and shoving, and in the middle of a scuffle a punch was thrown with one of the riders, Jim Spigelman, on the receiving end.

The first bell sounded and in apparent defiance of the insufferable incalescence that had referee Richard Steele mopping the sweat from his brow before a punch was thrown, McGuigan set off on the front foot.

In the ring, a punch is a punch, no matter who throws it.

Assessing the effectiveness of a punch is a slippery task.

"A punch is much better, you can respond to a punch.

A punch is not true eloquence, even if Devlin's came close.

His ability to withstand a punch is prodigious, however, and Frazier could not put him down.