Sentence examples for setting off a brawl from inspiring English sources

Volstad then threw his first pitch of the sixth behind Morgan, who charged the mound, setting off a brawl.

"Now you know why Jews are hated," the man replies — and Arthur hits him in the face, setting off a brawl.

Simon charged Hollweg from behind and set off a brawl.

The trash-talking nearly set off a brawl — for which Avery, Tucker and both teams were fined.

And it's a glimpse of a world in which "school reform" is an agenda and not just a term that sets off a brawl.

This dynamic appeared to have set off a brawl in western Ukraine, where Ukrainian nationalists scuffled with a group that had gathered in honor of Victory Day, complete with hammer-and-sickle flags.

The stress on both players combined with some in-game grievances set off a brawl that left Roseboro bleeding from the head and Marichal suspended.

On Long Island, two current and one former member of the Jets were charged with setting off a barroom brawl.

Another clash broke out in 2010 between conservative residents of an inner city neighborhood in Istanbul and patrons of the modern art galleries springing up in their increasingly fashionable quarter, when residents attacked opening night partygoers with sticks and stones, setting off a mass brawl and a public soul-searching that continued for weeks.

A British court said Wednesday that the Bush administration had issued such a threat last September, setting off a political brawl, with front-page newspaper stories, editorials and cries by opposition politicians that Britain has let itself be "blackmailed" by the United States.

For instance, Politico reported the president "was facing the choice between setting off a nasty brawl with Congress by seizing the best chance in a generation to flip the ideological balance of the Supreme Court, or simply punting".