FOUGHT in a Sentence

Learn FOUGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
182 example sentences for FOUGHT, such as:
1. The team fought back to win the game.
2. They had not whined, they had fought.
3. The company fought off tough competition.
4. He fought bravely in the midst of the battle.
5. The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
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 Meanings and Examples of FOUGHT
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  The news was uncertain, slow in coming, for the battle had been fought in the enemy's territory and the reports came first through Maryland, were relayed to Richmond and then to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Even now the Southern ranks might be falling like grain before a hailstorm, but the Cause for which they fought could never fall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  He did not speak and Dr. Meade thundered, losing his temper: "Our men have fought without shoes before and without food and won victories."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  At New Hope Church, fifteen miles farther along the hotly fought way, the gray ranks dug in for a determined stand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  New Hope Church was a nightmare of another life and so was Big Shanty, where they turned and fought the Yankees like demons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Within the space of a few days the battles of Atlanta and of Ezra Church were fought, and both of them were major engagements which made Peachtree Creek seem like a skirmish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Now they were battles, battles desperately, vainly fought as Johnston fell back toward Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  Then they fought the battle from here--from Tara--there was so much noise, people galloping up and stamping about.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  They had not whined, they had fought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  But on the plantation the war and the world did not exist except as memories which must be fought back when they rushed to mind in moments of exhaustion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  When she looked at Tara she could understand, in part, why wars were fought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  Rhett was wrong when he said men fought wars for money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  For another eternity they fought and swayed, side by side, and Scarlett could see that the lines of fire were shortening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  "I don't know why we fought and I don't care," said Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  We fought for the right of access to government information.
2  He fought in the N African campaign during the last war.
3  The Latin American and African people have successfully fought against colonial rule.
4  She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
5  The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
6  The crew fought a losing battle to try to restart the engines.
7  He fought bravely in the midst of the battle.
8  The company fought off tough competition.
9  Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
10  The team fought back to win the game.
11  We have fought scores of battles in order to win victory.
12  Somehow the small but formidable woman fought her way through the crowd to reach her son.
13  She has fought a one-woman campaign for ten years about the lack of childcare provision in the town.
14  About a thousand students fought with riot police in the capital.
15  He fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War.