gladiatorial
Example Sentences
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The origins of gladiatorial combat are unknown, though it was generally agreed by the Romans that it had been a foreign import.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“The important point,” Mr. Sidebottom notes, “is the Romans unanimously believed another people had invented gladiatorial fights.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
I feel sometimes it can be so gladiatorial when movies are pitted against each other.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
Demons were perched all around me on derelict equipment and abandoned train cars like the audience of a gladiatorial match.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
