Sentence examples for bout from inspiring English sources

Related: Le Pen family feud is a battle for the soul of the Front National – and France In an interview with the centre-right Le Figaro newspaper on Monday, Le Pen, who had threatened to leave the political ring "only at the end of the bout, whether victor or vanquished", seemed almost conciliatory as he said he would withdraw his candidature to avoid further damage to the party.

But on his third bout of global diplomacy since the attacks on America the prime minister got to within three hours' flying time across the Gulf of Oman.

The one side-effect of Annuale was a raging, psychopathic bout of PMS – think Fey swinging an axe, Casey Wilson diving face-first into a birthday cake, Poehler repeatedly kicking a guy in the nuts or Kristen Wiig making out with a dog.

No stay in the rainforest is complete without a good old bout of diarrhoea.

I managed to centre myself in the evening with half an hour's quick meditation and a vigorous bout of Cappadocian quadricep-flurries.

In total the study collected more than 1.3m words of first-person accounts, giving an insight into what drove people to participate in England's most serious bout of civil unrest in a generation.

In his great novel of the 1930s, Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), praised by Orwell and Trotsky, Céline also said that "all of the desires of the poor are punished by prison".

Nevertheless, the European Union unquestionably faces a fresh bout of huge and defining problems as the José Manuel Barroso era at the European commission gives way – officially from 1 November – to that of Jean-Claude Juncker.

Possibly this has triggered the bout of froth and bile.

The last bout saw Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop triumph over F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned.

Their bout nominally began at lunchtime, when the season's first Derby della Mole kicked off.