duel - vocabulary stories

Donald and Gabby both reached for the last peanut butter sandwich at the same time.

"I saw it first!" Gabby declared, her hand firmly on one corner. "No way!

I was here before you!" Donald shot back, gripping the other corner.

Their friend Sally watched from across the kitchen table. "You two are like knights having a

duel," she giggled. "What's a duel?" Gabby asked, still holding tight to her corner.

"It's when two people fight or compete against each other to decide who wins," Sally explained.

"In old stories, knights would have sword fights called duels to prove who was right."

Duel means a formal fight between two people with weapons, usually to settle a point of honor.