'sparring' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the practice of an activity, such as boxing, martial arts, or other sports, involving two people hitting each other with their hands or with an object. Example sentence: John and I enjoyed a good session of sparring this morning.
Dugdale admitted, with disarming honesty at a hustings in Glasgow, that she was "not looking forward" to sparring with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon every week and Murphy's debating heft will certainly be missed in the chamber.
There was the usual exploratory sparring for the first 25 minutes or so before Djokovic steadily took the upper hand.
Leading politicians now look ready to use sparring with Tamil Nadu as an excuse to scrap plans to devolve power to the regions.
To show that he has other skills too, Mr Linklater also screened "Tape", a tense, claustrophobic drama taken from Stephen Belber's one-act play about former high-school friends sparring over a girl.
The United Liberation Front of Asom has claimed responsibility.Unfortunately for the Indian government, however, ULFA is just one of dozens of militant outfits sparring with its forces across the region.
It is only logical that Russia should now demonstrate its resurgence by sparring with America again.
Sparring over line calls in tennis stopped after video replay was allowed in 2006.
Japan and South Korea have been sparring over the fishing around some rocks the Japanese call Take-shima and the Koreans Tok-to.But there is a less-noticed toll, too.
Most are small, but Germany's Piratenpartei, founded in 2006, has captured seats in four regional parliaments.The green movement had intellectual leadership from within academia, such as that of Commoner and his sometime sparring partner, Paul Ehrlich.
Because Sanpaolo is still digesting the merger of a host of sparring regional banks its corporate governance is, in Mr Salza's words, a telenovella (soap opera): until recently the bank had three chief executives.In this section A need for flexibility Diversity in numbers More claims Trading for trouble Flirting A load off?
The European Union is sparring seriously now with countries negotiating to join it, on the last and most difficult matters: farm subsidies, the free movement of labour, and environmental policy.
