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    affray


    1. Causing an affray


    2. Behind the affray, more beasts, that had once been civilized beings, milled about uncaring, waiting for their turn to move through the small breach, as arrows and projectiles rained down on them


    3. “The police have charged you with assault with a deadly weapon and affray


    4. “Yeah, they have charged me with affray and assault with a deadly weapon, one of the coppers saw me do it


    5. Then she began to laugh with her lips tight together, without giving up the fight, but defending herself with false bites and deweaseling her body little by little until they both were conscious of being adversaries and accomplices at the same time and the affray degenerated into a conventional gambol and the attacks became caresses


    6. With this command they sprang into the affray, the crowd audibly drew in a deep breath, I saw the arms go slowly into his sleeves, and hoped the priest had managed to explain that this was not for real, just an exhibition for the doubters


    7. From inside Grimes’s office they could hear more shouting and weapons firing from outside as the other mercenaries joined the affray


    8. Mr Robinson had a long criminal record that involved assault, affray, and trespass


    9. I say this lest thou shouldst imagine that because we have been drubbed in this affray we have therefore suffered any indignity; for the arms those men carried, with which they pounded us, were nothing more than their stakes, and not one of them, so far as I remember, carried rapier, sword, or dagger


    10. Dantes was almost glad of this affray, and almost pleased at being wounded, for they were rude lessons which taught him with what eye he could view danger, and with what endurance he could bear suffering

    11. Commendatore Beninobenone having been extricated from underneath the presidential armchair, it was explained by his legal adviser Avvocato Pagamimi that the various articles secreted in his thirtytwo pockets had been abstracted by him during the affray from the pockets of his junior colleagues in the hope of bringing them to their senses


    12. The affray was sharp,


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    Synonyms for "affray"

    affray disturbance fray ruffle altercation fracas brawl broil argument clamour disagreement disorder dispute

    "affray" definitions

    noisy quarrel


    a noisy fight