brawler

Example Sentences

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Opposition leader and Conservative Party head Pierre Poilievre, normally a relentless partisan brawler, has called it "well-crafted and eloquently delivered."

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

That stifled voice might find comfort in watching Ritchson’s brawler get his bell rung and refuse to back down from the inevitable conflict that might break him.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2025

His ads cultivated an image of a legal brawler whose menacing presence on the screen could be used in a plaintiff’s favor.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2024

The early brawler, the reformed sage, the repeat offender, the penitent observer of silence, the strategist, the troublemaker, the king of the kids, the petulant self-justifier, the granular cricket analyst, the late-career paragon.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

Simply because by so doing he'd have made himself nothing more nor less than a common brawler.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny