The phrase "started a brawl" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where a fight or a physical altercation began. For example, "John started a brawl after one of his friends insulted him."
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A shove started a brawl.
He was discharged several years later, he wrote, when he started a brawl and, after the sheriff arrived, elected to steal the sheriff's car.
That seems to have reassured the waverers.The PMDB backed Mr Serra during a farcical convention, at which dissidents started a brawl but government supporters easily won the day.
On New Year's Eve in a Staten Island firehouse, firefighters who had been drinking sangria and beer started a brawl that climaxed when one firefighter struck another with a chair, critically injuring him.
For his part, Mr. Birnbaum saw the pressure from parents beginning to build in the mid-1980's, when two parents started a brawl at the high school state championships at Princeton University, with one player having to stop play to climb over the fence and break it up.
During a game of basketball, Sky began feuding with Lana, and they started a brawl on the court.
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Some drunks taunted him about his looks at a baseball game, nearly starting a brawl.
Was it good or bad that the Mets didn't start a brawl?
Ambrose approached Rusev to start a brawl but Wyatt attacked from behind to get a head start on his rival.
San Francisco's Michael Tucker and Dodgers closer Eric Gagne were ejected in the eighth for nearly starting a brawl after Tucker dived away from a high pitch by Gagne.
The entire Pirates bench erupted onto the field in protest, kicking dirt at the umpire and the first baseman in a good-natured attempt to start a brawl.
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