Example Sentences

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India and Pakistan have been squaring up to each other too, and China is jostling for dominance.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

Two armies may have been squaring off in what looked like a siege, as Pod helpfully pointed out, but the real action was in the tents.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2016

Rodriguez’s saga — he and his legal team have been squaring off against the organization while he continues to play third base every day — has sunk the Yankees’ day-to-day existence into near absurdity.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2013

—Geoffrey A. Fowler Them's Fightin' Words European Pressphoto Agency Amy Williams of Great Britain British and Canadian journalists have been squaring off in Vancouver, and not in a friendly, Olympic-spirit kind of way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2010

Anybody who impeached Newton on existing evidence might as well have been squaring the circle, for any attention he would have got.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene