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
• 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
• Watching this play out in real time recalled reports about the early days of the Trump presidency, when competing factions would sneak provocative articles onto his desk in hopes of swaying his opinion and triggering his pugilist instincts.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024