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How to use lock horns in a sentence

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It will be a marvellous occasion when the counties lock horns on Saturday week, and expect a huge crowd to be there bedecked in blue and white.
Would such opposites attract, learn from each other, and astonish us, or would these two conflicting musical spirits lock horns and fight it out?
Come June, it will be time to lock horns with Group F opponents Slovakia, Paraguay and world champions Italy.
Mr. Ferrell is not the only celebrity to lock horns with Wall Street recently.
I am sure we will be able to lock horns about some of those extremely important issues on other occasions.
The west Asians will face an enigmatic Papua New Guinea side, while the Caribbean islanders lock horns with a highly-motivated Equatorial Guinea.
Rather than lock horns with preservationists, he embraced his task with fetishistic glee.
With Honduras, Argentina, Nigeria and Japan poised to lock horns with Spain, Syrua, France and Haiti respectively, bring on day two!
Japan now turn their attention to facing Nigeria while Mexico lock horns with England with all four teams in Group C level on one point each.
Asian champions Iraq lock horns with Qatar in Dubai, knowing that a point against their Gulf rivals will see them through.
The mainstream candidates' reluctance to lock horns with the tycoon may be understandable given his apparent immunity to criticism.
But what Mann needs is an opposite number for his heroes: another equal-and-opposite hombre to lock horns with.
It's rather dangerous to lock horns in an arena larger than you're used to.
Meanwhile, Harry finally got his chance to lock horns with the third estate.
When these two lock horns, the film's energy level skyrockets.
Fearful to confront, because of our own fears, perchance we find ourselves looking into a mirror and are terrified to lock horns with our own conflicting thoughts.
The study authors suggest that females lock horns and fight like sumo wrestlers, enabling larger-horned beetles to grab a greater stash of dung.
It is rare to see private equity firms lock horns in a public bidding war.
The opportunity to see my team lock horns with the very best.
They were not afraid to lock horns with the central government on issues vital to their local communities, with which the central government was demonstrably way out of touch.
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But there's another day, and the kingpin and I may yet lock horns.
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