Sentence examples for of a duel from inspiring English sources
What we got instead of a duel was a "damp squib," as someone told the BBC.
Except for the use of protective clothing, épée fencing closely approximated the conditions of a duel.
In spite of this, David Landale felt obliged to ask his friends whether Morgan was even worthy of a duel.
There's one particularly revealing moment, a climactic scene of a duel between two of the main characters.
For Ichiro Suzuki, this is the bold declaration of a duel he has won at a better rate than almost any other hitter in the major leagues.
Hildebrandslied, English Song of Hildebrand, Old High German alliterative heroic poem on the fatalistic theme of a duel of honour between a father and a son.
I presume they use call-out in its general sense of "challenge to a duel".
The editor of Time chanllenged to a duel.
Instead of arguments leading to a duel, the duel became a reason to have an argument.
She described how one athlete will challenge another to a duel of eating chicken wings.
Playground dares are a childhood right of passage, a duel of one-upmanship and bravado where we jostle for a position on the social hierarchy by proving who has the most bottle.
