Sentence examples for lively battle from inspiring English sources

But at least now there's a lively battle.

Later, in a funny and lively battle, Quentin finally assembles all his magical skill to fight like a hero.

English Touring Opera's baroque season includes a lively "Battle of Britain" Xerxes newly directed by James Conway.

Yet a surprisingly lively battle is under way for control of the Pistons, a storied N.B.A. franchise also mired in tough times.

He is engaged in a lively battle to take over Lions Gate Entertainment, a Hollywood studio, and may also have Mattel, a toymaker, in his sights, having bought a few shares in the maker of Barbie dolls.

So there will soon be many lively battles and skirmishes to report.

Today's fistfight started what promises to be a lively electoral battle in Brussels between Belgium's Fascists (Rexists) on the one hand, and the coalition parties of Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland's government on the other.

Only one lot didn't sell, a painting by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, but a frankly awful Picasso, Homme Assis, 1969, made a miraculous $1.8m after a lively bidding battle.

Since then, the two suitors have waged one of the liveliest takeover battles in Asian corporate history.

Even by the standards of the city's lively politics, the Battle of Bradford West in 2015 has been rancorous.

The New Yorker, July 29 , 1950 P. 13A Scarsdale lady, the mother of two boys, reports that a few days after a new family - a doctor, his wife, and three boys- moved in next door, she heard a considerable turmoil on her front lawn - a lively squirt-gun battle was going on, for which her offspring were equipped with water pistols, and the doctor's boys with syringes.