pugilist

Example Sentences

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Far from being an anomaly, Trump’s brand of pugilist politics, race-baiting and demagoguery marked the culmination of the modern right.

From Washington Post

Boxing metaphors about Mr. Reid would eventually become clichéd — he even named his memoir “The Good Fight” — but he was quite the pugilist.

From New York Times

Boxing metaphors about Reid would eventually become clichéd — he even named his memoir “The Good Fight” — but he was quite the pugilist.

From Seattle Times

And if you do the latter, the pugilists that he highlights showed, you get up and try again.

From Los Angeles Times

Jimmy ran his place like a reliquary, filling his hole in the wall with framed photographs of fellow pugilists and pasting snapshots of patrons on the bartop.

From Washington Post