'got into altercations' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation in which two or more people have a heated argument and/or physical altercation. For example: "The two boys got into altercations on the playground, so they were sent to the principal's office."
Tim Hardaway and Shareef Abdur-Rahim both got into altercations with French players, drawing technical fouls and the ire of the crowd.
The main characters, the Warner brothers Yakko and Wakko and their sister Dot, were cartoon stars who supposedly broke loose from the Warner Bros. water tower in the 90s and got into altercations with Tom Cruise, the Clintons, and Saddam Hussein.
"When you say, 'chasing after and getting into an altercation,' there's a lot of ways that people get into altercations," Robert Zimmerman said.
People don't just get into altercations.
Lolli worried about Nina's toughness, because she was already getting into altercations with her classmates at preschool; her favorite TV show was "COPS".
"I have walked away from many fights, thought about how stupid it was, but I always used to get into altercations.
Jackson believes educators gravitate to mindfulness training for controlling behavior; to help kids self regulate, so they don't get into altercations.
"If he were able to put together a good stretch of time where he wasn't getting into altercations, or getting into trouble with the law, and just kind of shying away... it would be possible".
I've gotten into altercations once or twice," he told me, explaining a feud he got into with a personal trainer who frequents the Exorcist Steps with his clients, and often blocks the way of others.
In the Knicks' loss to Portland on Thursday, he got into two altercations with Bonzi Wells.
Apparently, we got into violent altercations every time adults left us alone for five minutes – both reasonably assertive, clearly.
