Wondering how to use Cockfight in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as match.
Cockfight in a sentence
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Cockfight meaning
A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
Synonyms of Cockfight
Using Cockfight
- The main meaning on this page is: A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- Useful related words include: match.
- In the example corpus, cockfight often appears in combinations such as: cockfight in, cockfight where, at cockfight.
Context around Cockfight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cockfight
- In this selection, "cockfight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, clandestine, religious, bordertown, served, fiesta and authorities stand out and add context to how "cockfight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bordertown cockfight fiesta can and a clandestine cockfight in sevilla. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cockfight" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cockfight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Upon entry of the Queens cockfight, authorities found the birds in small cages with razors attached to them. (18 words)
It is illegal in all fifty states to knowingly attend a cockfight or bring a minor to the event. (19 words)
Mexico A cockfight in Mexico, ca. 1913 Cockfighting in Mexico has been taking place for over a hundred years. (19 words)
Abraham Valdelomar 's 1918 tale El Caballero Carmelo depicts a cockfight between the protagonist, a cock named Carmelo, and his rival Ajiseco from a child's perspective, who considered this bird as an heroic member of his family. (38 words)
Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up enforcement after one of the most serious mass shootings in that state's history happened last year at a cockfight where five people were shot, including two who died. (37 words)
The Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die features a death involving a cockfight, where a man who bets on a rooster attaches razors to its claws to ensure its winning, but is slashed to death himself. (37 words)
Example sentences (12)
Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up enforcement after one of the most serious mass shootings in that state's history happened last year at a cockfight where five people were shot, including two who died.
THE Guardia Civil have fined 83 individuals out of 120 for participating in a ‘clandestine’ cockfight in Sevilla’s El Palmar de Troya.
Abraham Valdelomar 's 1918 tale El Caballero Carmelo depicts a cockfight between the protagonist, a cock named Carmelo, and his rival Ajiseco from a child's perspective, who considered this bird as an heroic member of his family.
Balinese Hinduism includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used to fight against another rooster.
In it, he argued that the cockfight served as a pastiche or model of wider Balinese society from which judgments about other aspects of the culture could be drawn.
In literature, a description of a bordertown cockfight fiesta can be found in On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier.
In the Seinfeld episode " The Little Jerry ", Kramer enters his rooster into a cockfight in order to get one of Jerry's bounced checks removed from a local bodega where the cockfights actually take place.
It is illegal in all fifty states to knowingly attend a cockfight or bring a minor to the event.
Mexico A cockfight in Mexico, ca. 1913 Cockfighting in Mexico has been taking place for over a hundred years.
Philippines Cockfight in Davao City Cockfighting, locally termed Sabong, is a popular pastime in the Philippines where both illegal and legal cockfights occur.
The Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die features a death involving a cockfight, where a man who bets on a rooster attaches razors to its claws to ensure its winning, but is slashed to death himself.
Upon entry of the Queens cockfight, authorities found the birds in small cages with razors attached to them.
Common combinations with cockfight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cockfight in 4×
- cockfight where 3×
- at cockfight 2×