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
That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
It is gladiatorial – it is all Hardy knows.
From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024
His happiness, it turned out, was because he had killed seven mice and was feeling very proud—not to say pumped up and gladiatorial.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
