An aerial engagement between fighter planes

Usage examples of dogfight.

Mack had been here before, and he knew that bearbaiting, dogfights, sword fights between women gladiators and all kinds of amusements were held in the backyard.

Deacon used up all his ammunition in another hopeless dogfight with the murderous Zeros and then, with a wounded leg and a shot-up aircraft, glided for Hickam Field.

Pope began to follow with real longing the careers of the original Sacred Seven and the new Nifty Nine, for these were men his own age, men he had flown with, men with whom he had conducted simulated dogfights in untested planes over the silvery waters of the Chesapeake or the barren flats at Edwards.

I propose alternative sentencingone that would make dogfighting less of a spectator sport and more of a true macho test.

I also had a kid with a lost dog, and her mother was mixed up in dogfights with some lowlife from the Mex Mafia.

Debby Dee said, pointing to the Popes, and for two hours they reminisced about the days at Solomons Island, the old cars, the Pax-Jax-Lax routine, the dogfights above the Chesapeake.

Cockfights, dogfights, coon-on-a-log, duels, stallion fights, bullfights.

Archer and Athans dogfought the stationary cannons, while Athans's comrades utilized their diversion to loop around to the rear of the supercarrier and seemed to dock on the rear end of the deck.

The GD engineers had also thrown in an alphabet soup of new dogfighting technologies.

A desperate dogfight had swirled across the red giant's sky, and the damaged battle cruiser Kalinin, her crew evacuated, had been left behind to an attention-distracting self-immolation.

And then the good old Law of Fives came into it, and we had the Fascisti and it was a five-way dogfight.

If he got drawn into a close-range dogfight against a more agile opponent, she might just get lucky and score a hit or two in the right place before she died.

Face goosed his thrusters and the foursome of starfighters veered off, away from the center of the dogfight, toward Iron Fist.

The dogfight had left him drained, his reactions as automatic as the navigational guidance information from his Instrument Landing System.

His own gunboats and small attack craft were now in the system, engaging the kamikazes in savage dogfights, and the massive gunboat reserve—which had stood ready to respond to attacks on either or both of the two threatened warp points from a central position—moved to support them.