How to Use warrior in a Sentence

warrior

noun
  • The streets are the stomping grounds of warriors and good and bad people.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
  • To see a young Galadriel as this kind of warrior was rad.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Wakanda warrior wore her hair up, but this is no run-of-the-mill updo.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Along the way there are ogres, warrior tournaments and plenty of naked flesh.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Prey Naru is a skilled Comanche warrior who has been wanting to join the hunt, which her tribe finds strange at best.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
  • His control warrior friend yelled for help on the bathroom floor and ended up in a cast, Brode said.
    Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Her fierce warrior is weary and her battle yells pack a cathartic punch.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But on the streets, police warrior culture trumped that training and the race of the officers who pulled Nichols over.
    William Falk, The Week, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Set 300 years in the past, a young Comanche warrior fights against an alien predator to protect her tribe in this sci-fi thriller.
    Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
  • My daughter fought every day of her life and was truly a warrior and my hero.
    Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
  • The orchestra pit rises again as the dancers freeze on these warriors who possess both brawn and heart.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Darin Hoover described his son as a warrior who built a legacy of service.
    Amy Nelson, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Those who knew Fulbright described him as a fighter and a warrior.
    Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • There's a brave princess warrior, a farting pony, and some unlikely heroes along the way.
    Esther Carlstone, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Just do another chapter of chasing in and out of the gauntlet of warriors?
    Vulture, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The laws are also meant to make DeSantis seem like a warrior for far-right values.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That may be the case at this moment as warrior Mars in your sign squares Neptune in your ambitious 10th house.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • He was traded to the White Mountain Apaches and raised with their children to become a warrior.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The story follows the elf Éile (Sophia Brown), a warrior turned bard, as she becomes embroiled in the politics of the empire.
    Leigh Butler, Time, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Combine a fishtail French braid over the top of your head with Dutch braids, then add in decor hooks and feathers to bring out your inner warrior.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This wee warrior is usually $16, but right now Amazon has it on sale for just $11.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2023
  • This is an information war, and DT is a skilled and tenacious warrior.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Set in the early 1700s, the film follows Naru (Midthunder), a Comanche woman who seeks to prove herself as a warrior.
    Keith Langston, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • In contrast, Jefferies’ Hermione Granger-like Annabeth is a badass warrior.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • All abused Hindu gods and the warrior king Shivaji; all seemed to come from accounts run by Muslims.
    Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The sources also said a notebook was found in the suspect's backpack with writings about wanting to go to Afghanistan and train to become a holy warrior.
    CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Thus the biblical story of Samson, the legendary Israelite warrior who sets out to defeat the Philistines.
    Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
  • His great-great-great grandparents helped raise Crazy Horse, who was an Oglala Lakota warrior.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • With the ninth century came the era of the Vikings, the Nordic warriors, craftspeople, farmers, seafarers and merchants.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Jim Jordan is a hard-right warrior, a front-line infantryman eager to storm the Omaha Beach of the culture wars.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023

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