How to Use battle royal in a Sentence

battle royal

noun

• A half-ton pickup battle royal could be about to go to full boil.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• By that measure, this Monday’s 30-man over the top battle royal should be one of the best in the event’s history.
  — cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Tonight's Royal Rumble is wide open with about a dozen possible ways the 30-man over the top battle royal could play out.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• On the other side of the impending battle royal is Hathaway.
  — Caroline Framke, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
• The second season was both sharper and funnier than the first, with a season-finale battle royal in which the spoils went to the patient folks at home.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Jey Uso was crowned winner of the battle royal St. Petersburg, Fla., which did not even occur last year.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 12 Apr. 2021
• Royal Rumble battle royal at just over one hour, one minute.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
• The event features a 30-man and 30-woman battle royal with the winner securing a spot in the male and female main events at WrestleMania in April.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Two major factions have emerged in this battle royal: the backward-looking camp and the forward-looking camp.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• With Mandy on the run, heading back to her father’s Wyoming ranch, and Roy Lee in close pursuit, all parties are set to converge in a bloody battle royal for possession of the shirt.
  — Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
• This sets up a battle royal that also turns out to be, approximately, a battle of the sexes.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
• But with the three podium finishers in Zagreb in fine form and with Shiffrin returning to her best the stage is set for a battle royal for medals in the slalom and giant slalom races at the championships.
  — Paul Gittings, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
• But a battle royal has to have other opponents — in this case, my brother, who didn't like the price tag on the new bed, a four-poster totally upholstered, trimmed, and gussied up.
  — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 2 Oct. 2012
• There could be only one winner in a battle royal, so pacts were inevitably broken, lending each match a wary frisson.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Koch network is likely to spend heavily to support the voucher law, setting up a battle royal with the labor movement.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
• Thursday’s Democratic debate was billed as a kind of battle royal.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2019
• The match will be a Royal Rumble format (with wrestlers entering at set intervals of time) rather than a battle royal format (with all the wrestlers beginning in the ring at the same time).
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• With a governing board engaged in a battle royal that deepens every week and a president who might or might not have been fired, Wayne State is in turmoil.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
• Yet the powers that be want to pit Teddy against his family in a theatrical battle royal for the audience’s amusement.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
• Wegmans’ service marks the beginning of a battle royal among grocers.
  — Suzette Parmley, Philly.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Bloomberg's qualification now sets up a battle royal of sorts.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2020
• If that argument succeeds, the stage could be set for a battle royal over the population numbers that Mr. Trump would send to the House for use in reapportionment before his term ends.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• The men’s battle royal at Double or Nothing struggled to tell multiple stories, which is a byproduct of the nature of these matches—there is simply too much going on at once.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• During Sunday night's Royal Rumble, the men's 30-man over the top battle royal came earlier than expected.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile, the battle royal of top East Bay leaders for Lee’s seat isn’t materializing.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
• With all the backstory and drama clearly leading up to an epic battle royal between the two principles, all the details that don’t help build this narrative can be jettisoned.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
• There’s a battle royal raging over Florida’s congressional districts, with most most of the focus on whether a map should or shouldn’t be drawn to maximize the chances for electing a Black member of Congress along the state’s northern border.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• Arriving in the aftermath of more than a year of weak box-office returns, the $160 million sci-fi battle royal embodied a similar return from seeming oblivion for Hollywood.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
• Unlike recent Texas presidential primaries, when the field had only two major contenders, the March 3 contest is more like a battle royal, with candidates trying to toss each other over the top rope to seize the party’s nomination.
  — Jamie Hancock, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
• The director, Chad Stahelski, works these elaborate fights and their flimsy killings with flashy but insignificant embellishments (such as filming an indoor battle royal from overhead, as if by drone).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024