pugilist

How To Use pugilist In A Sentence

• A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
• While not the gritty young pugilists often associated with old-school boxing gyms such as Gleason's, the men exemplify the type of boxer who has become a mainstay of New York's traditional fight halls.
• The two pugilists traded blows early on, and seemed fairly evenly matched.
• Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
• Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
• Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
• Thirdly, there is the tendency of the press, which is now the great moulder of public opinion, to take what we may call the pugilist's view of international controversies. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895
• Then the aging pugilist, too, turned earnest, and emoted about how all political consultants respect one another deep down, because unlike the candidates they elect, they live "in the trenches. Ed Rollins, Republican strategist, joins political consultant hall of fame
• Political infighting rarely comes to real fisticuffs, but the Scottish Tories at their Dundee conference this weekend were clearly being inspired by pugilistic events going on at Hampden.
• If Harold Bloom is correct – and he's been quite sure of himself for almost 40 years – the placid scene of influence is in reality a brawl, with writers engaged in pugilistic agon against their aesthetic progenitors. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review