How to Use battle royal in a Sentence

battle royal

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  • A half-ton pickup battle royal could be about to go to full boil.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • By that measure, this Monday’s 30-man over the top battle royal should be one of the best in the event’s history.
    — cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Tonight's Royal Rumble is wide open with about a dozen possible ways the 30-man over the top battle royal could play out.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • On the other side of the impending battle royal is Hathaway.
    — Caroline Framke, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The second season was both sharper and funnier than the first, with a season-finale battle royal in which the spoils went to the patient folks at home.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Jey Uso was crowned winner of the battle royal St. Petersburg, Fla., which did not even occur last year.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Royal Rumble battle royal at just over one hour, one minute.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The event features a 30-man and 30-woman battle royal with the winner securing a spot in the male and female main events at WrestleMania in April.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Two major factions have emerged in this battle royal: the backward-looking camp and the forward-looking camp.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • With Mandy on the run, heading back to her father’s Wyoming ranch, and Roy Lee in close pursuit, all parties are set to converge in a bloody battle royal for possession of the shirt.
    — Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This sets up a battle royal that also turns out to be, approximately, a battle of the sexes.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • But with the three podium finishers in Zagreb in fine form and with Shiffrin returning to her best the stage is set for a battle royal for medals in the slalom and giant slalom races at the championships.
    — Paul Gittings, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
  • But a battle royal has to have other opponents — in this case, my brother, who didn't like the price tag on the new bed, a four-poster totally upholstered, trimmed, and gussied up.
    — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 2 Oct. 2012
  • There could be only one winner in a battle royal, so pacts were inevitably broken, lending each match a wary frisson.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The Koch network is likely to spend heavily to support the voucher law, setting up a battle royal with the labor movement.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Thursday’s Democratic debate was billed as a kind of battle royal.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The match will be a Royal Rumble format (with wrestlers entering at set intervals of time) rather than a battle royal format (with all the wrestlers beginning in the ring at the same time).
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • With a governing board engaged in a battle royal that deepens every week and a president who might or might not have been fired, Wayne State is in turmoil.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Yet the powers that be want to pit Teddy against his family in a theatrical battle royal for the audience’s amusement.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2018
  • Wegmans’ service marks the beginning of a battle royal among grocers.
    — Suzette Parmley, Philly.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Bloomberg's qualification now sets up a battle royal of sorts.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2020
  • If that argument succeeds, the stage could be set for a battle royal over the population numbers that Mr. Trump would send to the House for use in reapportionment before his term ends.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The men’s battle royal at Double or Nothing struggled to tell multiple stories, which is a byproduct of the nature of these matches—there is simply too much going on at once.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • During Sunday night's Royal Rumble, the men's 30-man over the top battle royal came earlier than expected.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the battle royal of top East Bay leaders for Lee’s seat isn’t materializing.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
  • With all the backstory and drama clearly leading up to an epic battle royal between the two principles, all the details that don’t help build this narrative can be jettisoned.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a battle royal raging over Florida’s congressional districts, with most most of the focus on whether a map should or shouldn’t be drawn to maximize the chances for electing a Black member of Congress along the state’s northern border.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Arriving in the aftermath of more than a year of weak box-office returns, the $160 million sci-fi battle royal embodied a similar return from seeming oblivion for Hollywood.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Unlike recent Texas presidential primaries, when the field had only two major contenders, the March 3 contest is more like a battle royal, with candidates trying to toss each other over the top rope to seize the party’s nomination.
    — Jamie Hancock, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The rules were not articulately explained for this match, which apparently was a hybrid battle royal match where security could be eliminated, pinned or submitted.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 June 2022

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