cross swords in a sentence
Examples
- The protagonist Kirito will cross swords with a mysterious player who would become one of the key characters in the game.
- The opposition's mounting readiness to cross swords with the chancellor reflects the swelling opposition to a single currency among ordinary Germans.
- Curley and Ely would again cross swords in the 1932 presidential election, when Curley supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ely supported Smith.
- Kaczynski says he wants to " cross swords " with government prosecutors and FBI agents in an effort to clear his name.
- I am beginning to understand why every U . S . president since Richard Nixon has been loath to cross swords with China.
- After Gephardt delivered his condemnation of the status quo, he appeared to suggest he never intended to cross swords with Clinton and Gore.
- Far be it from me to cross swords with ACOG, which, freely translated, means the people running the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
- Powerful men with oversize ambition cross swords, while the women in their lives try in vain to talk some common sense into them.
- "He's a pretty decent guy away from business although I'm sure I wouldn't want to cross swords with him on any deals ."
- Vivar crosses swords with the man in black, who turns out to be his own brother, the Count of Matamoros, and kills him.