bruiser

Example Sentences

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These U.K. bruisers have been at the forefront of a post-punk renaissance coming out of the British Isles, a movement with an impressively long tail.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Scotland were expecting some brutality from the Tongan bruisers in Nice and they were probably steeled for some other stuff - some stuff that careered over the line between acceptable physicality and reckless ferocity.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2023

When the researchers artificially decreased levels of Jhe in soldier ants using a technology that uses small pieces of RNA to disrupt the production of proteins, these bruisers started to search for food.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2023

Alongside dancers and burlesque artists were wrestlers who, true to the event’s name, were conjured from another universe: colorful divas and gifted athletes, of course, but also postapocalyptic cyborg bruisers and human-size chickens.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

They were all bruisers and brawlers, culled from the younger members of the Dregs, the people Kaz trusted most.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo