1 The race for senator has become a political slugfest.

2 This one is a genuine slugfest with plenty of tank batlles.

3 If the enemy usually benefited from an am-bush, he was more likely to regret a proper slugfest.

4 He's a fast, powerful and explosive boxer, who's agile enough and crafty enough to outbox even the slickest men in the game, but strong enough to win a slugfest with its hardest hitters.

5 A separate showdown is also under way: a high-stakes slugfest pitting euro zone leaders and their competing visions of the currency union against each other.

6 By that standard, AARP may be outmuscled only by the White House in the slugfest over restructuring Social Security.

7 The annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race is much the same: a slugfest between predominantly non-British mercenaries.

8 Like most everybody else, he'd just like to see a good ol' fashioned slugfest with skill and courage displayed by the combatants.