gladiatorial
Example Sentences
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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
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
Generally, emperors sponsored gladiatorial games to boost their popularity and to showcase their might.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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
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