How to Use pugilist in a Sentence

pugilist

noun

• One of the most amusing finds is the short story about Fitzgerald as a fictional pugilist.
  — Robert K. Elder, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• Stockier, too, with a pugilist’s build, and muscles that looked earned rather than sculpted in a gym.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• The wreck ejected the world champion pugilist, who was not wearing a seat belt, police said.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 10 Oct. 2019
• The other Parkinson's pugilists in the class salute his effort by clapping their boxing gloves.
  — David Holahan, courant.com, 7 July 2017
• Donald Trump was the anti-Romney in many ways: Gruff, unpredictable, and above all, a pugilist.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Williams said as Burnet, wearing sparring hand pads, spotted a teen pugilist in a mirrored corner of the gym.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2017
• You’re attacked by a giant wolf, pugilist mushrooms, mephitic swamps, and a sword-wielding spider.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
• He was known as a pugilist with the resources to back risky projects, bringing more new plays to Broadway each season than any contemporary.
  — Lee Seymour, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• The fiery old pugilist Harry Reid, who always proved a willing sparring partner, retired from the Senate last month.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 22 Feb. 2017
• Cornyn, as always, has been less of a pugilist but no less adamant that curbing access to firearms for law-abiding Americans is a nonstarter.
  — Todd J. Gillman and Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 6 June 2022
• And, in the center of all this activity stood boxing rings with young pugilists training or exchanging blows while round buzzers buzzed on cue.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
• Yet Arcade Fire can’t be compared to a traditional pugilist.
  — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 28 Oct. 2017
• Six-time major champion, golf icon and media pugilist Phil Mickelson made the cut on the number, shot even-par 72 and stayed at 3 under with no hope of winning.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2021
• Armed with a thick Boston accent and a direct and brusque nature, Baker is a former union shop steward known as a rhetorical pugilist.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Over the last couple of years, Residente has emerged as an industry pugilist, willing to fight against the commercial forces that can overpower the music scene.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• Bannon’s love of verbal combat, plus his habit of reading the occasional book, have lent him him a reputation as the thinking man’s pugilist.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Oct. 2017
• Bucky appears in that novel as a homicide detective and pugilist, who takes part in a notably bloody bout with another detective.
  — Stuart Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• In appearance, he could be mistaken for a mixed-martial-arts fighter: closely shorn head, a pugilist’s nose, skin well moisturized, and all six feet of him poured into a slick Tom Ford suit.
  — Joe Hagan, The Hive, 23 Mar. 2018
• So Momo soon carves a space at Casa Rosa alongside two other boys, though his hard shell hardly cracks on contact: Scared and furious, his default mode is bravado; one tiny, prickly pugilist against the world.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Brendan Smith had been called for a roughing penalty after the first period ended, leading to a fight with an unlikely pugilist in forward Adrian Kempe and putting the Kings on special teams to start the second.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
• Like a savvy veteran pugilist who forever has that dangerous jab, Lampley still gets fired up talking about the sport and can’t hide his excitement over being back around it.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Nick Cave waded into the crowd countless times Friday at the Auditorium Theatre and each time the singer in the suit was transformed: preacher, pugilist, dastardly villain, bereaved parent.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2017
• Jake Paul, pugilist and popular digital influencer, is throwing his hat into the wagering world.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
• Words were exchanged, Armenta got out of his vehicle and the pugilists went after each other until conditioning became a factor.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
• Which pugilist will emerge as the undisputed heavyweight champion when Francis Ngannou takes on interim champion Ciryl Gane?
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• Unlike their pugilist forebears, Adesanya and Usman are very much 21st Century-type stars with global identities and influences.
  — Chidinma Irene Nwoye, Quartz Africa, 2 Nov. 2019
• In a post-truth world, pugilists and zealots dismiss such scholarly arguments as apologia for Muslim violence or as a weak case for pluralism that divests Hindus of their rights as the majority.
  — Supriya Gandhi, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2020
• Even as black Americans celebrated the boxer's accomplishment, the federal government moved to make an example out of the pugilist.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Mayweather retired undefeated, 49-0 and perhaps the greatest and most contemptible pugilist ever.
  — Adi Joseph, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
• Part mentor and part intellectual pugilist, Gibson imported a kind of alienated bohemianism to the school.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024