bruiser

Example Sentences

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Lenoir stars as Adam Franco, a stoic bruiser who overcame a tragic childhood to find a home in law enforcement as an undercover agent.

From Los Angeles Times

Older readers may remember Labour bruiser Denis Healey describing an attack by a mild-mannered Tory opponent as like being "savaged by a dead sheep".

From BBC

Quartet, entwining three cops — a well-connected straight-arrow, a fraudulent celebrity, a bruiser working out trauma through his own abuses — in a case that blows the lid open on the whole dirty town.

From Los Angeles Times

Alongside dancers and burlesque artists were wrestlers who, true to the event’s name, were conjured from another universe: colorful divas and gifted athletes, of course, but also postapocalyptic cyborg bruisers and human-size chickens.

From Los Angeles Times

The debut album from these Tacoma crossover bruisers hits like a battering ram to the gut, a merciless blend of fist-pumping hardcore and thrash metal.

From Seattle Times