gladiatorial
Example Sentences
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Emperors competed with one another to put on larger and larger gladiatorial games, often to mark an anniversary of their rule or a military victory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The best that can be done, he holds, is to “construct a tentative program of gladiatorial training.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
If you tuned into the Culture, Media and Sport committee hearing on Monday expecting a gladiatorial showdown, you'd have been left wondering where the swords were.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
Hence the satisfaction of witnessing Lorraine’s steady shift from Mommy Dearest to vindictive she-dragon protecting what’s hers, including the two women she views as equals in gladiatorial terms if not financially.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
Demons were perched all around me on derelict equipment and abandoned train cars like the audience of a gladiatorial match.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
