How to Use bare-knuckle in a Sentence

bare-knuckle

adjective or adverb

• And to go bare-knuckle with the Chargers.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
• Mucha is known for her bare-knuckle style of dealing with members of the media.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• The brick building once housed mobsters and bare-knuckle boxers.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Mullica said such bare-knuckle tactics aren’t a way to win votes, much less friends, in the building.
  — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• The film’s tender moments sit alongside scenes of fast cars, hard partying, and bare-knuckle fights.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
• But Prograis also flirted with the idea of bare-knuckle boxing.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• And bare-knuckle fighting fans have likely tuned in to beIN to catch a broadcast of the sport’s bloody bouts.
  — Sarath Ganji, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Still, there was also a sense among some that Greene, for all her bare-knuckle politics, could have gone further.
  — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
• The man who believed in the potential of bare-knuckle fighting, even when others doubted.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Perry is a former mixed martial arts fighter and is 5-0 as a bare-knuckle fighter.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
• The bare-knuckle-boxing bouts of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
• The descendants of the two founders, who died decades ago, are locked in a bare-knuckle fight for control of Korea Zinc.
  — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• Tenaglia is back for his first defense against bare-knuckle boxing sensation Tony Soto.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• It’s been a chaotic ride, even for those accustomed to the bare-knuckle politics of this North Shore city.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• He bare-knuckle punches with a split-second intensity that magnetizes the camera to his every move.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• This kind of bare-knuckle politics might explain why so many other GOP leaders are uneasy.
  — The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
• The bare-knuckle affair featured a bracket with eight competitors using eight different fighting styles.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
• As this race turns into a bare-knuckles brawl, follow all the campaign news on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
• The result is a bare-knuckles portrait of a player who as a teenager rose to the pinnacle of his sport and peak celebrity in Germany, his home country.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• And his kind of bare-knuckle romanticism was reinforced in me by Roethke and early Ted Hughes.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
• The slow action drew boos from the crowd, who quickly diagnosed the whole affair as a sanitized version of what everyone had really come to see—a bare-knuckle street fight.
  — Stayton Bonner, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
• About freshman quarterback Finley Lucas, whose 41-yard score on the first drive let Mead know that this was going to be a bare-knuckle fight.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2024
• Inside the city, the bare-knuckle brawl falls to Wagner, its recruits tasked with suicide dashes at Ukrainian lines to create openings for the rest to follow.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Monday night’s childish spectacle saw Jackson marching into the midfield, losing his cool, and throwing a bare-knuckle punch at Chubb.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
• Lester thinks that there’s some special alchemy in the way Brustein was simultaneously an avuncular, loving figure and a bare-knuckle scrapper.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• Surviving and thriving during 50 years of bare-knuckle Massachusetts politics is proof of that.
  — Jon Keller, CBS News, 15 June 2026
• His best bare-knuckle performance came in a 2024 win over ex-Bellator champion Daniel Straus.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• For Republicans, despite victories in a bare-knuckle redistricting war, the House already looks lost.
  — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
• Kid is first seen in an ape mask fighting (and losing) bare-knuckle battles in an underground arena run by a sleazy South African (Sharlto Copley).
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The film followed Chan Lok-kwun (Raymond Lam), a mainland refugee trying to pay his way to a fake ID by winning bare-knuckle brawls.
  — Marcus Lim, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025