martial

in a sentence

She admired the discipline and focus required to master different forms of martial arts.

"They give me a choice, transfer or court-martial," he said.  (source) Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels, 1988

By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

And before a court less arbitrary and more merciful than a martial one,  (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

In a mid-afternoon of spring, the little boy Jody walked martially along the brush-lined road toward his home ranch.†  (source) John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, 1945

This person on his trial by court-martial expressed, with an oath, the wish that he might 'never hear of the United States again.'  (source) Edward E. Hale, The Man Without a Country, 1863

But it was the heart of the house beating, faintly at first, then loudly, martially.†  (source) E. M. Forster, Howards End, 1910

He read obsessively, practiced yoga, became expert at the martial arts.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

He remained motionless and let her pass on the sidewalk, her heels clicking martially on the pavement.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

I'll have you before a capital court martial.†  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

He was greeted by the prefect of the Zhuhai Shi-Guangdong Province Control, who strode purposefully, martially, enthusiastically, towards him.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

By sunset on the second day, our bodies ached from sitting, and Shawn said he should teach me martial arts.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

"This is the end!" screamed a female voice, as an obese woman in curlers strode martially out of a door on the right wearing a bathrobe.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986