How to Use gladiator in a Sentence

gladiator

noun
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  • The loss, in the last of four straight road games, dropped the Gladiators to 2-7.
    — Plain Dealer Sports, cleveland.com, 10 June 2017
  • Holmes paired the dress with black gladiator sandals (it’s the 2010s, again!) and a white bag.
    — refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
  • And this is why Daniels may be the only gladiator who has a chance right now in the ring with him.
    — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
  • 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 | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Avoid sandals for the most part; too many of them look like gladiator footwear these days.
    — Maura Kelly, Marie Claire, 11 May 2010
  • 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
  • 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
  • The look was paired with a black leather mini-skirt and matching opera gloves, plus lace-up, gladiator-style heels.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Her crew: five grim gladiators in crash helmets, the new face of the America's Cup.
    — Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These gladiator sandals are easy to slip on thanks to elastic straps.
    — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • How the Hulk's time as a gladiator was much sadder in the original story ...
    — Ray Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2017
  • His capsule lands on the faraway planet of Sakaar, where he's forced to become a gladiator—the best the beings of Sakaar have ever seen.
    — Luca Cimarusti, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The battles are clash-bang spectacles of torn coils and gears, staged as if Optimus, Scourge and the rest were knights or gladiators.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 June 2023
  • Instead, Thompson has more of a gladiator look, with a leather tunic, belt, and honest-to-god pants.
    — Emma Stefansky, HWD, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Like Maximus before him, he is captured by the Roman army and forced to become a gladiator after the death of his family.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024

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