Sparring used in a sentence

Sparring in a sentence as a noun

He's not even a sparring partner for Thiel.

I'll take G'Kar sparring with Londo any day over the pablum on TV now.

Simply the fun of sparring? It would be cool to better understand.

After two sparring sessions I decided it was a lot more fun to go after bags that don't hit back.

The point being, weight loss is one thing, but muscle sparring while losing weight is another. Understand what you are going after and know the correct path.

A sparring match between a great developer and a great test engineer is truly a thing of beauty. And in the end, both of them win.

A spouse provides you with the brutally honest intellectual sparring partner you generally won't find in other friends. A spouse supports you when you've had a **** day, month, or year.

I do martial arts, and when I get hit in the face while sparring, it's useful feedback and something I can learn from. If my training partners weren't willing to hit me occasionally, they'd be doing me a disservice.

The only thing I miss from my old stationary lifestyle is a regular gym, sparring partners and a coach. The only thing I don't understand about living in the googleplex is sex.

Plus there's nothing like venting your frustrations on an unsuspecting punching bag or a very suspecting sparring partner.

Note: before you take my comment apart and feed it back to me realize that I have no desire in getting into a verbal sparring match with you and won't reply to you. I suggest that you follow the advice, "if you can't think of anything nice or constructive to say, bite your tongue".

To stick with the "marketing guys" metaphor, it is Don Draper sparring with Peggy; throwing slogans against the wall and seeing if it sticks and sketching out a plan. Marketing also has the equivalent of the artful "software making" that the author refers to.

Rational people ought to be able to debate - sparring through facts, hypotheses, and argument - without walking on eggshells. Dispassionate debate is a far better mechanism to find truth than name-calling.

Multiply this by a dozen top-level packages and scores of dependencies with potentially sparring versions and it becomes a huge mess. Consider that developers are keen on using the latest shiny bauble, and are thus pulling code directly from github/etc.

This reminds me of an Amtrak ride along the CA coast, where the 50yo man next to me enjoyed sparring w/ the young female stewardess/whatever over the course of several hours, until the climax: he offered to take her into a bathroom and put her on a diaper changing table. I don't believe she was thrilled to hear the proposal.

However, what differentiates jiu jitsu, wrestling and boxing from a lot of "traditional" martial arts is live sparring. I think that people who practice a martial arts with an emphasis on live sparring will have an enormous advantage if a real fight because live sparring is a close simulation of the real thing.

Therefore, sparring with someone way bigger than you is completely different from sparring with someone much lighter; Both are incredibly entertaining. Best session I had was against a female partner, probably 15cm and 15kg lighter. She had a very keen sparring instinct and easily outmanouvered me.

Additionally, the Ferengi were initially conceived as a militaristic enemy, worth of sparring with the Enterprise crew. Their orcish appearance was meant to evoke malevolence, brutishness and aggression - not greed or "Jewishness".

Honestly, the Internet and the world at large is missing out on many, many possibilities for "intellectual sparring" because they've made it extremely debate-hostile in the name of having fun and "can't you take a joke". People would rather cram things down by force or not at all, because if they open the floor to conversation, their ideas will be lost in the haze of personal accusation.

He said something like: when you walk out of a karate class, after a lot of sparring, you feel like a tough-guy who's ready to kick some ***, but when you walk out of a BJJ class, where people smaller than you have just repeatedly demonstrated that they could **** you with their bare hands, you feel very humbled. The effects on ego tend to weed out a lot of assholes, and between this and the mental challenges of the sport, it is one of the reasons I've come to love it.