Thesaurus results for MELEE

melee

noun

ˈmā-ˌlā

as in brawl

a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people a verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general melee involving scores of spectators

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Recent Examples of melee Fans fought in the streets, heaved bottles, smashed windows and shouted filthy insults in the melee, which left nearly 50 people injured. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 15 June 2026 Next weekend is shaping up to be a multi-front melee for the box office gold. —

Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 June 2026 Scores of young men recorded the melee on their phones while others tried to break up the brawl. —

Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026 That year also included a violent mass melee among students on campus. —

Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for melee

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brawl

Noun

Thirteen players, including four Australians, are ejected for their part in the brawl.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
The Red Sox and Nationals turned a regular June game into the biggest baseball brawl of the season after Boston hothead Willson Contreras completely lost it.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026