battle royal
Example Sentences
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It’s a buddy adventure that takes the duo from one tight spot to another, including a gladiator-style battle royal and a cavernous snake pit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Naomi Alderman’s new dystopia, ‘The Future,’ finds a new way into the genre she mastered in ‘The Power’: a battle royal of preppers, tech billionaires and cults.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
What he said is a reminder that legal skirmishes over the particulars of an execution are different from a battle royal over the moral heart of America.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
He is among the wrestlers set to compete in a mashup of a battle royal and street fight at Battle Riot VI on YouTube.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
I found an opportunity to exchange some words with him, the others rushing out into the yard, waxen clogs a-thumping, to place bets upon a battle royal between a mongoose and an asp.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
