Examples of tussle in a Sentence
Noun
The suspect was arrested after a tussle with a security guard.
a tussle for control of the company
The President is in for another tussle with Congress.
Verb
Two players tussled for the ball.
The residents of the neighborhood tussled with city hall for years about the broken parking meters.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 July 2026
As his tussles with grief and sobriety and heartbreak appear in flashes, so do red and blue police lights.
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Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
26 June 2026
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
29 June 2026
But the Americans tussled right back, and never totally lost their cool.
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Sean Gregory,
Time,
20 June 2026
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Noun
That’s home turf for them, which puts humans at greater risk for losing the tussle.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 July 2026
As his tussles with grief and sobriety and heartbreak appear in flashes, so do red and blue police lights.
—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
26 June 2026
Verb
Over the past month, the administration has tussled with Anthropic and OpenAI over releasing their latest models to the public.
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Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
29 June 2026
But the Americans tussled right back, and never totally lost their cool.
—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
20 June 2026
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“Tussle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tussle. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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tussle
2 of 2 noun1
: a physical contest or struggle
2
: a rough argument or a struggle against difficult odds
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