How to Use bare-knuckle in a Sentence

bare-knuckle

adjective or adverb

• And bare-knuckle fighting fans have likely tuned in to beIN to catch a broadcast of the sport’s bloody bouts.
  — Sarath Ganji, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Mucha is known for her bare-knuckle style of dealing with members of the media.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Mullica said such bare-knuckle tactics aren’t a way to win votes, much less friends, in the building.
  — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• The brick building once housed mobsters and bare-knuckle boxers.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• It’s been a chaotic ride, even for those accustomed to the bare-knuckle politics of this North Shore city.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• But Prograis also flirted with the idea of bare-knuckle boxing.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• As this race turns into a bare-knuckles brawl, follow all the campaign news on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
• The man who believed in the potential of bare-knuckle fighting, even when others doubted.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Perry is a former mixed martial arts fighter and is 5-0 as a bare-knuckle fighter.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
• About freshman quarterback Finley Lucas, whose 41-yard score on the first drive let Mead know that this was going to be a bare-knuckle fight.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2024
• His Trump ties have not bothered some Democrats, who have cheered Lowell’s bare-knuckle tactics on behalf of Biden, the president’s son.
  — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• The result is a bare-knuckles portrait of a player who as a teenager rose to the pinnacle of his sport and peak celebrity in Germany, his home country.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• With Triller, the only part that I was really actively involved in and still am is the Fight Club and bare-knuckle boxing, which is now the fastest growing combat sport.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• In 2021, a right hand from Cleckler in the first round of bare-knuckle fight knocked out Justin Thornton, who was hospitalized for months and ultimately died.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• Inside the city, the bare-knuckle brawl falls to Wagner, its recruits tasked with suicide dashes at Ukrainian lines to create openings for the rest to follow.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Tenaglia is back for his first defense against bare-knuckle boxing sensation Tony Soto.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Kid is first seen in an ape mask fighting (and losing) bare-knuckle battles in an underground arena run by a sleazy South African (Sharlto Copley).
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The slow action drew boos from the crowd, who quickly diagnosed the whole affair as a sanitized version of what everyone had really come to see—a bare-knuckle street fight.
  — Stayton Bonner, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
• Pierre follows him to place where these men, known as ultras, hang out, and finds a subcultural haven swathed in swastikas and simmering with aggression (there’s even bare-knuckle boxing).
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
• He bare-knuckle punches with a split-second intensity that magnetizes the camera to his every move.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• Alatorre was nevertheless able to distinguish himself fast with his bare-knuckle style.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• The bare-knuckle affair featured a bracket with eight competitors using eight different fighting styles.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
• Mastro, a veteran of the Giuliani administration known for this bare-knuckle legal style, got love from the Adams administration just hours after the release of the caucus’ statement.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
• The victory validates his bare-knuckle approach to politics.
  — Ani Freedman, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
• However, these hits are sonically and geographically distant from the genre’s roots in the rural Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, where the sound’s bare-knuckle form, merengue típico, has reigned for more than a century.
  — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• After four recent arrests in a long history of violations, state officials are pressing to deter election fraud and absentee ballot cheating in the future in bare-knuckle elections in Bridgeport.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• With a long tradition of one-party rule, a bare-knuckle political culture and an unusual patchwork of governmental fiefs, the state has been a hotbed for corruption that has felled city councilors, mayors, state legislators and members of Congress.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Lewandowski is a mercurial figure with a reputation for bare-knuckle campaigning.
  — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2024
• For years, the Wagner group has protected the leadership of the Central African Republic with bare-knuckle security enforcement, weaponry and propaganda campaigns.
  — Elian Peltier Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025