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Dogfight meaning
A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters. | A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.
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Example sentences (20)
A dogfight ends when Din Djarin discovers Shard's flagship, with the new character immediately cutting quite an impression.
After successfully destroying the enemy's underground uranium plant, Maverick and the Top Gun team are stuck in a dogfight.
Having been embroiled in a relegation dogfight last season, Marsch kept them up by the skin of their teeth thanks to an away win at Brentford on the final day.
In the meantime, do, please, keep the faith – I appreciate that’s a big ask at this moment in time, but right now we’re in a dogfight and need you more than ever to help us come through this difficult patch and start climbing the table again!
It was a bitter pill to swallow for Palace, who will now be looking nervously over their shoulders at a potential relegation dogfight after failing to hold on to a lead for the second time against these opponents this season.
PORTLAND United are in a relegation “dogfight”, assistant manager Jamie Symes has admitted.
The second half was turned into a defensive dogfight, while both teams lost a player to the sin bin for dangerous tackles.
Crazy as it sounds, if they do not stop the bleeding soon they are going to find themselves dragged back into the dogfight at the bottom to avoid a League One play-off.
His wife, Adrienne Frost, who is a licensed aircraft engineer, said: "Mark wanted to be a pilot from a young age after seeing four F4 Phantoms having a dogfight above his school in Bala in the early 1970's.
In Pennsylvania, longtime Democrat incumbent Bob Casey is in a dogfight with Republican challenger Dave McCormick.
LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers didn’t make any trade-deadline deals, nor did a Golden State team that entered the season with championship hopes and finds itself in a dogfight at the bottom of the West playoff picture.
Owing to its intended role as a pure interceptor, i.e. not intended to dogfight enemy fighters, it was not equipped with either a gun – shades of the early versions of the F-4 Phantom(!) – nor with the ability to carry bombs.
The next day, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) retaliated, resulting in a dogfight with the Indian Air Force.
This year is going to be a dogfight.
During the dogfight the RAF aircraft was badly hit, forcing F/Off Dixon to bail out only for his parachute to catch fire.
Here's What You Need To Remember: If an Iranian pilot can survive a merge with an F-35 and engage the stealth fighter in a turning dogfight, the Iranian might just bag himself a stealth fighter.
If forced into a dogfight, an American F-35 pilot’s superior skills and experience might be the only factor that might save him or her from being shot down.
One close Trump adviser called Pennsylvania "a dogfight," despite several new polls showing a Biden lead of at least five percentage points in the state.
The result threw Uganda out of the silverware bracket into the dogfight for places.
Vapor trails paint the sky after a dogfight and soldiers manning an anti-aircraft gun look to the skies for their next target.