gladiatorial

Example Sentences

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Loyalty, it would seem, means nothing in the gladiatorial arena of the annual song contest.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Emperors competed with one another to put on larger and larger gladiatorial games, often to mark an anniversary of their rule or a military victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

If you tuned into the Culture, Media and Sport committee hearing on Monday expecting a gladiatorial showdown, you'd have been left wondering where the swords were.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

No doubt football is suffused with gladiatorial bravado.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2024

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