Sentence examples for fight badly from inspiring English sources

Individuals from different social groups are thrown together and fight badly, raking each other with their teeth.

I spent three months working with them, trying to invent the way my character would fight – and fight badly, because he doesn't really know how to.

According to Herodotus, Themistocles left messages at every place where the Persian fleet might stop for drinking water, asking the Ionians in the Persian fleet to defect, or at least fight badly.

The other Greeks fighting for the Persians had deliberately fought badly, according to Herodotus.

We picked the wrong side (the French), and then we fought badly, and then we fought a bit better, but not well enough to win.

One night, a street fight went badly wrong.

Hatton's last fight started badly and ended with him unconscious in the middle of the ring.

"I was sitting ringside, but I'd never seen Jimmy fight so badly," recalled Mr. Rotolo, the retired rug cleaner.

Although the country wanted the fight so badly that it agreed to change the apartheid laws to allow blacks and whites to sit together, the national broadcaster decided not to show it.

There was an anecdote that, whatever the true details of the legislative fight, played badly for Pawlenty, about how he supposedly maneuvered Bachmann and other legislators into the position of having to raise taxes or loosen abortion restrictions.

At the press conference after the fight, Frazier, badly bruised and attended to carefully by his aides, talks of speed and says that he didn't find Ali to be all that fast.