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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of brawl.

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Examples

  • It was patent that he brawled, somewhere in that outside world where he ate and slept, gained money, and moved in ways unknown to them.

    The Mexican 2010

  • In A Million Little Pieces, his memoir about his supposed crack addiction, he claimed to have knocked down a Michigan cop while high, after which he allegedly brawled with a platoon of beefy officers who hurled him into jail for three months; it turned out that he was merely involved in a minor collision, behaved with exemplary sobriety at the police station, and was released a few hours later.

    The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review 2011

  • The GOP and their corporate masters have set up the Tea Party in the same way as the Nazi SA brownshirts who brawled in the streets and beat up commies and jews were set up and run by Rolm under Hitler.

    Think Progress » Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP. 2010

  • Stacey and I brawled wildly, a flaming furry whirlwind of vampire and Mouser.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Half-blind in the rain and darkness, I brawled the car down the mountain, thinking it the lesser of two evils.

    Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011

  • Now Mr. Dubus chronicles the desperation of his own hardscrabble upbringing in the post-industrial mill towns of Massachusetts, where he brawled away his youth before he realized that a well-turned sentence offered more satisfaction than a cleanly landed right cross.

    Bareknuckle Beginnings Gordon D. Marino 2011

  • And because I told Scotty what I thought of his letting an old man like French Frank get away with him, we, too, brawled and added to the festivity of the sandspit.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • Caleb and Matthew famously brawled backstage at a British awards show (the newspaper headline: "Bruise Somebody").

    Riffs: Kings of Leon vs. The World: Their biggest beefs, brawls and blow-ups Allison Stewart 2010

  • On July 8, the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox brawled on the field at Fenway Park, resulting in four players being run.

    Do Ejections Rise With the Mercury? 2011

  • Half-blind in the rain and darkness, I brawled the car down the mountain, thinking it the lesser of two evils.

    Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011

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