Sentence examples for a vicious game from inspiring English sources

Despite the red card, it had not been a vicious game.

The result is oddly unemotional, as if a vicious game were being played by solemn rules, with barely a flicker of interest in the characters' moral plight.

The fire played a vicious game of hopscotch in this neighborhood, leaving the homes on either side of Ms. Martinko-Rosen's unscathed.

In a vicious game of round robin, Sudan supported a range of guerrilla groups against its neighbors, as those same neighbors supported guerrilla groups or fomented rebellion against Sudan.

He pressures a reluctant Tom into playing a vicious game of wheelchair basketball; the other paraplegics take offense when a battered Tom steps out of his chair at the end of the game.

Next to Shakespeare's other tragic figures, who sometimes sound like Freudian case studies — Hamlet, that whiny, dithering ball of nerves who accidentally murders his girlfriend's father; Lear, who judges his daughters so egregiously in a vicious game of favorites that he deserves to be left out on the moors — Coriolanus comes across as downright noble.

Here's the thing about football: it's a hurting profession, a fundamentally vicious game.

It's a pretty vicious game, but I guess you need to get your aggressions out somehow.

Getting them all in their car seats in the back of our Ford Focus is like a particularly vicious game of Jenga, with added whining.

Political tribalism (particularly the "worth it to own the libs" brand of tribalism) has become so ingrained in our psyches that it seems normal to purposefully start fights with loved ones out of a misplaced allegiance to a deluded and vicious game show host who wouldn't piss on his supporters if they were on fire.

"In the heat of the battle, it's a hard-hitting, vicious game, and sometimes you lose perspective," Kelsay said.