gladiatorial

Example Sentences

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Loyalty, it would seem, means nothing in the gladiatorial arena of the annual song contest.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

“The important point,” Mr. Sidebottom notes, “is the Romans unanimously believed another people had invented gladiatorial fights.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The gladiatorial stadium stands between England and parity in the Ashes series.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

But we aren’t going to get it as long as we indulge the rhetorical gladiatorial fantasies of the “Debate Me” Bros.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025

So did Dorothy Fowler, who fumed to a visitor one day, “This community doesn’t want academic excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a Friday night.”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger