How to Use pugilism in a Sentence

pugilism

noun

• Its pugilism is polite and thoughtful, but this is a show that very much packs a punch.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• Of course, the Williamsburg Hotel forces no one to bring pugilism to his/her vacation or work time.
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• But to the surprise of pugilism pundits worldwide, Álvarez slipped.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 17 Sep. 2022
• It’s made by a Charlestown startup that has a vision of doing for pugilism what Peloton did for cycling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2021
• Unlike most big-time pugilism spectacles, this fight is not a title bout.
  — TIME.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• His brand of right-wing pugilism is similar to what talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin have been doing for decades.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• Irvin, back to pugilism for a second, asks rhetorically.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
• With that simple statement of faith in a better America, Allen lays out the deeply idealistic roots of his legal pugilism.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
• But as Nick Goldberg wrote, Cuomo has a long history of political pugilism.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• Being his first foray into professional pugilism, McGregor won rounds against one of the sport’s greatest.
  — Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2017
• Healey’s time in office has been best known for her pugilism against Trump over everything from his initial travel ban to efforts to roll back environmental protections.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• The Republican field runs along a spectrum from those who fully embrace Trump’s pugilism and populism to those who would temper it with traditional conservatism or wrap it in a more optimistic sales pitch.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• The NHL boasts the fastest, most dynamic players in its 100-year history, but the sport of grace has a credibility gap so long as pugilism is accepted in an age of vigilant scrutiny of concussions and head injuries.
  — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2017
• Production sources believed the snub was retaliatory, citing Rudin’s pugilism that embroiled the show in multiple legal disputes on its way to New York - a precursor, perhaps, to his downfall this spring.
  — Lee Seymour, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• At the same time, even ideological hard-liners who share the president’s pugilism but not his pragmatism have stuck by him because Mr. Trump has made the right enemies — and gleefully ridiculed them with public insults rarely heard from a president.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2017
• And once Christianity became championed by Rome, one of the most militaristic civilizations the world has known, philosophical discussions on the nature of good and evil became martial instructions for purges and pugilism.
  — Bettany Hughes, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• Some see that same pugilism as a negative, especially when he's used it to deliver sharp upper cuts to top Republican leaders who had once been in his corner and now harshly criticize him as an ungrateful opportunist.
  — Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2018
• Every generation of leftists angrily vents about liberalism’s slim ambitions and its paucity of pugilism.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017
• The abject failure of the liberal nation-building project in Afghanistan, or the international gridlock in supporting Ukraine’s fledgling democracy against Russia’s pugilism, are just a few recent real-world checks to liberal universalism.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024