DUEL in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for DUEL, such as:

1. Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.
2. I want to show you that I am not afraid of a duel.
3. The duel, if you are willing, shall not be renewed.
4. She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it.
5. I believe that you could not avoid this duel, which.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
duel
 n.  combat between two persons; fought with deadly weapons by agreement;
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  I acknowledge the strangeness of our duel, but I think it my duty to warn you that I intend to fight seriously.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  The duel, if you are willing, shall not be renewed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  I believe that you could not avoid this duel, which.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Quietly, quietly,' Pavel Petrovitch interrupted him; 'don't hurt the leg of your reasonable brother, who at close upon fifty has been fighting a duel like an ensign.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Arkady was quiet while Bazarov described his duel with Pavel Petrovitch.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  At last I determined to challenge my enemy to a duel.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
7  I composed a splendid, charming letter to him, imploring him to apologise to me, and hinting rather plainly at a duel in case of refusal.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
8  I want to show you that I am not afraid of a duel.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
9  Despite Denisov's request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostov agreed to be Dolokhov's second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for the duel with Nesvitski, Bezukhov's second.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
10  The night after the duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his father's room, that huge room in which Count Bezukhov had died.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
11  She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
12  She insisted that he was a bad man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
13  He had been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless night.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I
14  On the previous evening at the Lodge, he had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V
15  The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of the Emperor's severity regarding duels at that time, neither the principals nor their seconds suffered for it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  A fight-to-the-last-breath duel is often more compelling than merely a parade of highlight plays.
2  Feeling were so intense that they fought a duel.
3  They had been dueling for hours and finally called a draw.