gladiatorial
Example Sentences
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Jacob Tierney, a Canadian writer and director who adapted “Heated Rivalry” for television, thinks hockey fights might lend a “gladiatorial aspect” that people find attractive.
The gladiatorial stadium stands between England and parity in the Ashes series.
From BBC
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
But we aren’t going to get it as long as we indulge the rhetorical gladiatorial fantasies of the “Debate Me” Bros.
From Salon
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
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