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Example sentences for "pugilist"

Lexicographically close words:
puffy; puft; puggaree; puggy; pugilism; pugilistic; pugilists; pugna; pugnacious; pugnacity
  1. The sight and smell of his own blood sent the city pugilist into a crazed frenzy.

  2. The pugilist looked in the direction of the Captain as he drew away from the minister and steadied himself against an upright.

  3. Yet in the large and fashionable audience which assembled at the Bijou Theater there were evidently many persons who were drawn by no other motive than a curiosity to see the champion pugilist of the world.

  4. For the managers and press representatives had been attempting to create a false and fatuous interest in this eminent artist by advertising him as champion pugilist of the world.

  5. The young pugilist had never been daunted by any experience which had befallen him in the ring.

  6. The pugilist passed his hand over his battered face.

  7. Even now the pugilist found that he had no light task before him.

  8. So stunning was the concussion that the pugilist himself recoiled from it across the grassy ring.

  9. The young pugilist stood up with surprise and a certain horror rising in his eyes.

  10. As to the lady's thoughts, she had already put away all idea of the young pugilist as a man, and regarded him now with critical eyes as a machine designed for a definite purpose.

  11. The Moral Sentiment A Pugilist met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was carrying a hat-box.

  12. The Pugilist's Diet The Trainer of a Pugilist consulted a Physician regarding the champion's diet.

  13. One thing I must tell you, he riled Contradiction awfully by asking her if she liked dolls; she was Pugilist Pug then and no mistake.

  14. Corbett, the ex-champion pugilist of the world, was appearing at Drury Lane Theatre in London much to the dissatisfaction of the resident actors, authors and managers.

  15. He found himself gazing with some amazement into the grinning homely face of "Iron Man" McCorquodale, the ex-pugilist with whom he had exchanged sparring compliments the night of the fog.

  16. These aristocratic friends were, moreover, ready to be useful at a pinch, and would bail out a pugilist in trouble, or give him their countenance and support.

  17. At the trial of one William Ward, who had killed a man in a fight, the pugilist was attended by his patrons in court.

  18. During my brief career as pugilist I only met one man who was of the same brutish temperament as myself--Tommy Gibbons, of Pittsburg--and we fought four encounters.

  19. It evidently wasn't a habit of the pugilist Robinson to carry about in his hand-me-down suit a check-book carrying a bank balance of forty or fifty thousand dollars.

  20. After that Terry went to the States and became a professional pugilist of note.

  21. On the first round, the great experience of the pugilist enabled him to land one or two heavy jolts, and when the gong sounded the time-limit, Jim had got rather the worst of it.

  22. His poor success as a pugilist drove him to the use of an office chair, whose blows were received with another.

  23. The fact that foreign nations are able to thrash them does not convince them that those nations are superior, any more than a gentleman's physical defeat by a pugilist would satisfy him that the pugilist is a better man.

  24. The pugilist whose trainer he consented to become was sure to win.

  25. The month before he had broken the ribs and gouged out the eyes of a pugilist named Sixmileswater.

  26. For a few moments when the pugilist was on top of the Doctor it looked rather dubious, but I knew the sort of stuff Frank was made of and kept yelling: "Never quit, Frank, die on the spot.

  27. A second later the pugilist had not only been turned, but the fight had also turned, for Frank was on top and it was not long till the pugilist screamed: "Take him off, take him off.

  28. Then it was discovered that a professional pugilist from the "Bay" was over in Forest Hill, and someone suggested that a match could be made between him and Shorty Stack "to enliven the entertainment.

  29. But if I tell you that I have chosen this common pugilist because, after seeing half the culture of Europe, I despaired of finding a better man, you will only tell me again that I have lost my reason.

  30. On the strength of this reputation he can generally find some gambler willing to stake a sum of money that he will vanquish a pugilist of established fame in single combat.

  31. His career as a pugilist was closed by his marriage.

  32. I must have looked in the glass to array myself as I did; but the mind's eye was the seeing eye, and it was filled with this frightful vision of the notorious pugilist known to fame and infamy as Barney Maguire.

  33. The pugilist had been at least a fine figure of a bully and a braggart when I saw him before his fight; now he had a black eye and a bloated lip, hat on the back of his head, and made-up tie under one ear.

  34. We doubt if any pugilist in his secret heart despises training.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pugilist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archer; athlete; batter; battery; bruiser; catcher; center; coach; competitor; end; featherweight; fighter; fullback; guard; heavyweight; jumper; lightweight; lineman; middleweight; outfield; player; prizefighter; pugilist; quarterback; racer; shortstop; sport; sportsman; tackle; wrestler