Sentence examples for be a duel between from inspiring English sources

The Orange Bowl promised to be a duel between two of the nation's best and most unlikely college quarterbacks, Florida State's Weinke and Oklahoma's Heupel.

Neither Carpenter nor his counterpart Yovani Gallardo arrived with his best stuff, and a game that was supposed to be a duel between a pair of aces turned into a showdown of relievers instead.

I had spent my time turning in scripts where the network would say, 'George, this is great but you have to cut characters' or I'd write a scene involving 1,000 people and by the time it made it to air it would be a duel between two people.

It's a duel between the phallic and the vaginal.

It was a duel between two very good bands.

For the first seven innings, the game was a duel between Mays and Steve Sparks.

Fourth is a duel between the waning Chelsea and the revivalist Tottenham Hotspur.

One of the album's most startling tracks, "_\_45_____," is a duel between Vernon's voice and Lewis's saxophone.

Until a batter hits the ball, the game is a duel between the pitcher (and catcher) and the batter, which is repeated with each at bat.

After that, it was a duel between Domínguez and Kamsky, with the Italian grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, the top seed, at their heels.

Odets's thrilling tale, in which Joe literally and figuratively "makes a killing" in the ring, is a duel between the contending forces of success and integrity.