1.  As a sparring match, the intellectual face-off between Greenspan and Meyer is not much.

2.  At first glance, this T-shirt sparring match may appear to be a relatively minor one, pitting two large, stubborn and immature bodies against each other.

3.  Fogler and Donovan got into a verbal sparring match during SEC media day, and last week the SEC office reprimanded both.

4.  It would not be a freelancing, playground game without a sparring match, and Beck and Johnson chipped in with one.

5.  Nearly anyone with an IBM-compatible machine has had some kind of sparring match with memory settings.

6.  The back nine started as a sparring match.

7.  The performance excerpts are riveting, while the hotel-room hootenannies and verbal sparring matches conjure a bygone era.

8.  The stage was set for a five-hole heavyweight fight, but instead it was like a sparring match.

9.  This is a cooler, sexually mellower sparring match, between an unregenerate spinster and a confirmed bachelor.

10.  Under Gill, board meetings had turned into prickly sparring matches with Kessel, who was frustrated at no longer being in charge.