Examples of bruiser in a Sentence
That boy is going to be a bruiser when he grows up!
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The 227-pound Estime could be a goal-line bruiser and maybe even a bell-cow in the right offense.
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 July 2025
Capitals forward Tom Wilson jumps to mind as a relentless bruiser who is miserable to play against.
—Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin O’Connor had a different Boston comp: ex-C’s bruiser Jae Crowder.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 July 2025
Capitals forward Tom Wilson jumps to mind as a relentless bruiser who is miserable to play against.
—Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin O’Connor had a different Boston comp: ex-C’s bruiser Jae Crowder.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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“Bruiser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bruiser. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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bruiser
noun
bruis·er
ˈbrü-zər 
: a big husky person
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