Sentence examples for swing a fist from inspiring English sources

In the melee Ince appeared to swing a fist at another fan.

Frank's formulation echos the libertarian credo that one person's freedom to swing a fist ends where another's nose begins.

He looked at the prisoner's bloody and battered body and then swung a fist at the Sergeant.

The man suddenly swung a fist and struck him in the eye, Mr. Yu said, and started to run.

Faris's trademark is the power-through: after her character has done something incredibly stupid or embarrassing, she doubles down, gamely swinging a fist to rally a doomed effort.

A swing of a fist nowadays, the assaulter lands in the hands of the cops pending expulsion.

I wanted to be more than the swing of a fist from my mum's boyfriend.

Swing your arms, knock into stuff, clap your hands to your face or your hips, or swing your fist like you're jolly.

This is no more a hopeful basis for a universal morality than the contention that your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

It is a wise and ancient rule, as fundamental as the principle that my right to swing my fist stops somewhere short of your nose.

As the quote, often attributed to the American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, says: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins".