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How to use dueling in a sentence

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The immediate consequences to a duelist of wounds inflicted by thrusts or cuts from the rapier, dueling sabre or smallsword were unpredictable.
While upper-class dueling had become rare by the 1840s, highly ritualized forms of working-class fighting continued throughout the century.
Two reddish dueling scars, badges of honor from his student days, glare prominently on his right cheek.
The Sanctuary's dueling grounds was found at the end of the north wing of the main chamber.
Two terribly eager young men were dueling with megaphones, exchanging jocular insults across the concourse.
Taking a key from his watch chain, he opened it and looked at the French dueling pistols lying on their dark blue velvet beds within.
Colin and Miriam are dueling fiercely near the bar, their blades clashing against each other.
Fencing was founded in the 1800s based on the three types of sword dueling.
Some were dueling away with wooden swords, and others were throwing javelins at targets.
The result is a farrago of contradictory ideas, with visions of patriarchs dueling with notions of upward-striving capitalists.
Such is the nature of American fencing that even at the nationals, marginal swashbucklers like me can end up dueling an Olympian.
I'm not terribly interested in the dueling hagiologists and demonizers bickering over the historical legacy of the informant.
They made it look easy, and I thought that maybe I could win the fight by dueling like they had.
The dueling lawsuits offer a rare window into the secretive inner workings of a hedge fund.
What happened to the record industry in 1948 was the result of dueling technical standards sowing market confusion.
If I could press a stethoscope to your head and listen to your brainwaves, I imagine they'd sound like a pair of dueling banjoes.
In a 2001 article in New York magazine about feuding couples, one dueling duo, Dave and Brooke, traded barbs about her wireless addictions.
The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television.
The drums boomed, the bass often got lost in the mix under dueling guitars, and the dueling guitars crescendoed.
The rivalry came to a boiling point when the dueling divas finished the evening with an exhaustive dance-off.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the barbarism of those times dueling was a common practice.
He tried to read, and took down the Chateauvillard code of dueling.
He winced here, probably at the suggestion that dueling was not regarded with respect in America.
He was standing erect, in his hands two old lunarian dueling swords.
Evidently these two young men were unfamiliar with the dueling ceremonies, though they were not unfamiliar with the sword.
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