How to Use gladiator in a Sentence

gladiator

noun
  • Like a gladiator in the pit, the show earns a thumbs up to fight another day.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 18 July 2024
  • Galen of Pergamon learned about the brain from tending to the wounds of the gladiators.
    — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, the gladiators were slaves—but some of them won their freedom.
    — Martin Amis, Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Those About To Die will launch with all 10 episodes of the first season of the gladiator epic on July 18.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • What counts is who walks out of the gladiator pit a winner.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And some people love the gladiator aspect of it — the fight.
    — Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The overtaking — and the loss of his family and home along the way — instilled rage in the gladiator.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
  • To get there, though, Grande first had to battle a gladiator.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Olivia and her merry band of gladiators will stop at nothing to get to the truth.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Many gladiators only lived to their mid-20s, per the source.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • That would be quite the movie-date night with men dressed up as gladiators, and women in pink fairy dresses and pointy hat witch get-up.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Her crew: five grim gladiators in crash helmets, the new face of the America's Cup.
    — Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
  • What is the name of the amphitheater in ancient Rome where gladiators fought?
    — Alex Vance, Parents, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The various gladiators sit and giggle about all of the drug use and hooking up that happened on the bus.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • Think of it like a gladiator death match, Maynard said.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
  • During gladiator fights, women were allowed to sit only in the worst seats, next to the slaves.
    — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What remains to be seen is whether fans who see the films as a double feature will wear gladiator skirts and witch hats to the theater.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 July 2024
  • The models filed out, circling the dirt track like gladiators.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Momoa’s character replies as the clip shifts to him dressed as a fierce gladiator rapping about his love for the era.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In his movie career so far, Paul Mescal has played a gladiator, a ghost, an android, and a father.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • What does a gladiator have to do to get some Spaghetti Carbonara?
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Below, Smith opens up about his career and what Shonda Rhimes has in store for all the gladiators out there.
    — Morgan Evans, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Feb. 2017
  • So just like in the gladiator fights in the Colosseum, the tactics can be rough, coarse, brutal and even ugly.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The bold, knee-high gladiator heels offered in a range of bright colors from vibrant yellow to blue, red and black.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2017
  • Timon and Pumbaa are caught and are getting groomed to be put in the gladiator ring.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Or a romantic white cotton blouse with a white slim skirt fringed in black and worn with gladiator heels.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 1 Oct. 2017
  • In this new episode the boot camp is transformed into a gladiator-style arena.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The hero who puts the glad in gladiator is also getting a live-action remake.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Ancient Rome is cool because of gladiators, Julius Caesar — and yes, the underlying lore of strength, bravery and epic feats of masculinity.
    — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Images of these spectacles survive to the present-day, but no direct links have supported human-animal gladiator matches in Roman Britain.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025

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