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fighter Noun

— A fighter is someone who fights for a cause, a job, or a sport. — #Another word for a boxer. — #A warrior or soldier. — #Someone else whose job is to fight, is fighting, or often fights. — A fighter is small, fast airplane used for war.

fighter

— noun (= combatant) someone who fights (or is fighting) — noun a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air — noun (= champion) someone who fights for a cause

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fighter English » English

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Topics fighter topics

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Social behavior Conflict

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What words refer to someone who is fighting?

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Simple sentences

The fighter toughened up for the bout.

Bill is a great fighter.

The fighter plane released its bombs.

The fire fighter demonstrated how to put out the fire.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Tom is a great fighter.

Tom has always wanted to be a fire fighter.

Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an airliner that deviated from its flight path.

Tom is a fighter pilot.

Tom is a fighter.

You look like a fighter.

Tom is a former fire fighter.

Movie subtitles

My dad was a fighter pilot, who flew Air Force One and ended up saving the President's life.

Oh, well, he's a fighter.

Spike Dugan, a fighter.

FREEDONIA NEEDS A NEW LEADER, A PROGRESSIVE, FEARLESS FIGHTER.

Jim Corbett was a great fighter, but Jeffries was the greatest what ever lived.

So you think you're a fighter?

I was a fighter until now.

Don't be a fighter, honey.

Who else in England is half the fighter and half the diplomat who has half your knowledge of the foreign situation?

Royal Air Force fighter, landing on field.

He just brought in that RAF fighter.

Hey, what's the lowdown on the RAF fighter squadrons?

RAF fighter.

San Francisco calling Griffin in RAF fighter.

Yes. In a crisis like this, Freedonia needs a new leader, a progressive fighter, a man like Rufus T. Firefly!

The fighter squadron, please.

I used to be a fighter.

We'll have to start looking for a new fighter.

A fighter's a machine, not a violin player.

We thought we'd drop in and tell you we're sorry you and your fighter busted up.

No hard feelings because you polished off my fighter.

Trying to frame my fighter into breaking his hand?

Say, did you ever see a bellhop that didn't wanna be a fighter?

How'd you like to be a fighter?

Yeah, a fighter, I guess, but I didn't know what I was doing.

Yeah, that's when you had a fighter.

So he wants you to be a fighter.

He's a booze fighter.

And besides being a great fighter you'd be handsome if it wasn't for that nose.

Even if you've lost that prize fighter, you've still got me.

It's sad enough when a girl like you grieves herself sick over a cheap prize fighter.

Freedonia needs a new leader, a progressive fighter, a man like Rufus T. Firefly!

Tell us where we can go to become fighter pilots.

I may be what you regard as a chair warmer now but a few months ago, I was flying with my squadron on fighter patrol over the English Channel at 30,000 feet.

A great little fighter for her weight.

Too bad kate wasn't more of a fighter.

He's a box fighter?

Uh-huh. Night fighter.

And I thought I could get back to it that way- back into training- work the fat off my doul. the way a fighter goes into the mountains. to work the fat offhis body.

News and current affairs

He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.

Fortunately, Hadjiev is a fighter.

It was more concerned with posing as an inflation-fighter.

Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the weak.

The reason for Wilders' surging popularity, apart from widespread distrust of Muslims, is that he has successfully cultivated an image as a fighter for free speech.

Geremek's essay about Marc Bloch, the French historian and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, is among his greatest intellectual and moral accomplishments.

President Vladimir Putin's pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.

If it goes too slow, the ECB has earned sufficient credibility as an inflation fighter to make up for it in the future with little if any economic or political cost.

In his novel of that title Joseph Heller described the situation faced by some fighter pilots in WWII: medics can ground anyone who is crazy, provided that the pilot requests to be grounded.

When Serbian fighter jets flew threateningly low over Slovenia's nuclear power plant, they spared the reactor.

For example, Italian naval forces were instructed to avoid the waters off the coast of Tripoli, and Spanish tanker aircraft were forbidden to refuel fighter jets.

Perhaps the mere threat of a no-fly zone will keep Qaddafi's pilots from using their helicopters and fighter jets to kill their own people.

An early test of the extent of the Kremlin's commitment to the Minsk agreement should be whether it frees Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine's first woman fighter pilot.

China also made a gift to Pakistan of 50 JF-17 fighter jets.

Somewhat more promising is the possible invitation to India to participate in developing, alongside France, Germany, and Britain, the new joint Euro-fighter.

Yes, they are divided, unpopular, and devoid of international representation, but the ups and downs of guerrilla warfare are well known; the only truly dead guerrilla fighter is one who is buried.

One representative was named to the Council because he defected with his MIG fighter plane 20 years ago.

Elsewhere in the region, Singapore has apparently opted to purchase 12 new F-15SG fighter aircraft from the United States.

With the exception of Singapore, it seems that Russian fighter-attack aircraft are the region's weapon of choice at the moment.

As with fighter jets, adding features and building small quantities causes costs to skyrocket.

Brazil has been mulling whom to pick to renew its Air Force's fighter fleet, and, whereas Lula favored France, Roussel canceled that option and may be leaning toward the US.

Gilani recently took a quick trip over the mountains to Beijing, and returned with an offer of immediate delivery of 50 fighter planes to Pakistan.

Fighter bombers and attack helicopters would be employed to intercept any counter-attacks against the flanks of the advancing columns, and to break up blocking forces.

In addition to becoming more active in world diplomacy, Yudhoyono will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this month to discuss buying Russia's newest fighter jets.

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