Examples of dustup in a Sentence
He had a dustup with a guy in the bar.
he came home with a black eye from the dustup at the bar
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But as the boy and his friends exited a walkway near the schoolyard a rival not involved in the earlier dustup ran up and punched the shooter in the face.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025
The position dustups have also exposed Devers’ first instinct to be inwardly focused.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
The public relations dustups at Nike, Coke and many others are symptoms of a much bigger problem—when brands lose their way and need to recapture the spotlight, stress sets in and mistakes are made.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
But contemporary critics such as Arthur Kropp, the president in 1991 of the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, did see the dustup as a portent way back then.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2025
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025
The position dustups have also exposed Devers’ first instinct to be inwardly focused.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
The public relations dustups at Nike, Coke and many others are symptoms of a much bigger problem—when brands lose their way and need to recapture the spotlight, stress sets in and mistakes are made.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
But contemporary critics such as Arthur Kropp, the president in 1991 of the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, did see the dustup as a portent way back then.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Dustup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dustup. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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