Examples of bruiser in a Sentence
That boy is going to be a bruiser when he grows up!
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Fredrik Olofsson, Chris Wagner and Joel Kiviranta have all been solid players and good soldiers, but the Avs just added two bruisers and have another guy (Nikolai Kovalenko) on the horizon who definitely embraces the physical chaos.
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Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2024
Longtime Challenge fans remember CT for his Boston bruiser era, when he was kicked off MTV's reality TV competition series multiple times for getting in fistfights with castmates.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
He’s refined his game to be a bruiser inside, barrelling his way to the rim for easy points, dominating in transition, and feasting as a cutter in the Raptors offense.
—Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
A bit of an anomaly in the world of bruiser SUVs where absurdity is often the norm—we're looking at you, Lamborghini Urus and Porsche Cayenne Coupe Turbo S—the GLE53 is neither a baller nor a sleeper.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
Not every jab and uppercut was a bruiser, but the cumulative impact of their pushback against the Seahawks (6-4) did enough damage for the Rams to end their three-game losing streak and led them to turn up the volume of their postgame music to deafening levels in their locker room.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound bruiser carried four times for 55 yards and added a sack and a pass broken up on a third down play.
—Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
The 6-foot-2, 219-pound bruiser rushed for 1,473 yards and 17 touchdowns as a junior in just 11 games.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
The men were smoking hot, fuelling my nascent infatuation with Clive Owen and Bruce Willis and even, maybe, in some corner of my psyche, the comeback bruiser Mickey Rourke.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2024
Longtime Challenge fans remember CT for his Boston bruiser era, when he was kicked off MTV's reality TV competition series multiple times for getting in fistfights with castmates.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
He’s refined his game to be a bruiser inside, barrelling his way to the rim for easy points, dominating in transition, and feasting as a cutter in the Raptors offense.
—Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
A bit of an anomaly in the world of bruiser SUVs where absurdity is often the norm—we're looking at you, Lamborghini Urus and Porsche Cayenne Coupe Turbo S—the GLE53 is neither a baller nor a sleeper.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
Not every jab and uppercut was a bruiser, but the cumulative impact of their pushback against the Seahawks (6-4) did enough damage for the Rams to end their three-game losing streak and led them to turn up the volume of their postgame music to deafening levels in their locker room.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound bruiser carried four times for 55 yards and added a sack and a pass broken up on a third down play.
—Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
The 6-foot-2, 219-pound bruiser rushed for 1,473 yards and 17 touchdowns as a junior in just 11 games.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
The men were smoking hot, fuelling my nascent infatuation with Clive Owen and Bruce Willis and even, maybe, in some corner of my psyche, the comeback bruiser Mickey Rourke.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
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First Known Use
1742, in the meaning defined above
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“Bruiser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bruiser. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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bruis·er
ˈbrü-zər 
: a big husky person
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