How to use "fighting" in a sentence

Captain Nemo swam away from the rocks, with his knife in his hand, and began fighting with the animal

Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

Then the fighting started.

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

As he was eating, Toussaint told him about the fighting in the city, but he did not pay much attention

In the pauses between shooting, the rebels could hear the sound of fighting in other parts of Paris

As the two friends moved back towards the door, fighting off the soldiers, a bullet hit Marius in the shoulder

'A fool who prefers fighting to dancing and having fun

But there will be no fighting today: the few people that are here look half dead.

White seabirds flew close to the surface of the water, fighting against the wind

So if people are fighting it, secretly..

"Most things worth fighting for involve a little danger

After a hard day of crime fighting, you can get stinking drunk and throw up on yourself, and it doesn't matter

It'll take us a little longer that way, but at least we'll have a fighting chance

But the truth is that I am fighting down the feeling that a stranger has broken into the house and is in my bedroom

Nothing more of the fighting was known that night, the night of my drive to Leatherhead and back.

'There's fighting going on around Weybridge,' was all the information they had.

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

Passengers were fighting for standing room in the carriages even at two o'clock in the morning

The police who had been sent to direct the traffic, exhausted and angry, were fighting with the people they had been called out to protect.

It was no time for fair fighting, and my brother quieted him with a kick, then took hold of the collar of the man who held the younger lady's arm

The top of a Martian fighting-machine came into sight over the house tops, less than a hundred metres away from us

As soon as the curate caught up with me, we saw either the fighting-machine we had seen before or another one, far away across the fields

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

The fighting-machines were extraordinary, but could not compare to this building-machine

The arrival of a second fighting-machine made us move back out of the kitchen into the hall, because we were afraid that from that height the Martian might see us through the hole

A fighting- machine stood in the corner of the pit

I watched the fighting-machine closely, sure for the first time that it did actually contain a Martian

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

The bottle hit the floor and broke, and I stopped fighting and got up

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

'In fact, it may not be so difficult to learn how their fighting- machines work

And as I came out of the top of Baker Street, I saw far away over the trees, in the clearness of the sunset, the top of the Martian fighting-machine from winch this howling came

Far away, through a space in the trees, I saw a second Martian fighting-machine, as unmoving as the first, standing in the park near the Zoo

I heard a large number of dogs fighting over the bodies that lay in the darkness at the bottom of the pit.

At the sound of birds overhead I looked up at the enormous fighting-machine that would never fight again, at the pieces of red flesh that dropped down onto the overturned seats on the top of Primrose Hill.

The line on the London side of Woking station was still being repaired, so I got off the train at Byfleet and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I had seen the Martian fighting- machine in the thunderstorm

After ten minutes of hard work, Harris was inside the cover! He was fighting to get out

Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it

In many places in the world, girls and women are still fighting for an equal education.

Today, there are still many women fighting for human rights in different parts of the world

In 2003, Shirin was given the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in democracy and human rights, and for fighting for the rights of women and children

In 1918, women over thirty got the vote after many years of fighting

All over the world, feminist movements have fought, and are still fighting, for women's right to vote

These movements are also fighting for women's right to work, to earn equal pay and to own property

They are fighting for women to get an education and for women to have equal rights when they get married

Women in northern Europe and in places like the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia were all fighting for the vote in the last years of the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century.

But it's not true; women all over the world are still fighting for their rights.

"No, no! Don't talk about fighting

I hate fighting and I hate violence

They start fighting