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Meanings of melee in English
Catalan
batalla campal Spanish
escaramuza Synonyms
Examples for "scrimmage"
Examples for "scrimmage"
1
He took active part in politics, and was terrible in a scrimmage.
2
Anyhow, I hope that we shall have some share in the scrimmage.
3
But he also does everything very well on the line of scrimmage.
4
How long the scrimmage might have lasted it is impossible to say.
5
South Carolina opened the scoring on the game's first play from scrimmage.
1
Then ensued a battle royal for the next quarter of an hour.
2
He must have it out with Yasmini in one battle royal.
3
So, more of a domestic botch than an international battle royal.
4
How they would have liked to see the finish of this battle royal!
5
Time for my very first official match: a battle royal.
Usage of melee in English
1
The game then pauses while the players work out the cavalry melee.
2
His gun, accidentally discharged in the melee, killed one of the peasants.
3
Brunswick went down in the melee, mortally wounded as it was believed.
4
Some began to fight, and in the melee two were seriously wounded.
5
Justin barely had time to acknowledge his friend before the melee occurred.
6
Paldane's finest men fought ahead down the causeway, embroiled in a melee.
7
The clubs were banned after a melee in a game last September.
8
In the melee, Billy had worked his way halfway up the slope.
9
Many dashed into the melee to bundle women and children to safety.
10
Keeping track of the remaining eleven installations in the melee was exhausting.
11
A wild melee began outside the right-hand snilau, whose roof had collapsed.
12
The woman also claims her cell phone was broken in the melee.
13
One Ugandan soldier died and two others were wounded in the melee.
14
Perhaps a quarter of a mile farther out was a dusty melee.
15
Justin couldn't help but laugh at the melee occurring in his honor.
16
Bailey jerked to an abrupt halt in the center of the melee.
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Melee through the time
Melee across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common