(n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Warren said a Russian Su-24 aircraft, or Fencer, made 12 passes at low altitude near the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer that has been in the Black Sea since April 10.
(2) The former fencer, unknown to most sports fans but an influential figure in German sport and business, takes over when the Olympic movement is at a crossroads.
(3) J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) If the worst they can say about you is you're an OPENLY GAY EX-OLYMPIC FENCER TOP JUDGE, you've basically won life.
(4) We present the case of a fencer who developed this injury.
(5) In fencers and left-handers shorter latencies were found for the large visual field condition, whereas right-handers showed an opposite trend.
(6) A case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the hypothenar eminence of a 23-year-old female fencer is described.
(7) The reaction time in test 3 correlated significantly (p less than 0.01) with competition success within the group of world class fencers.
(9) The results showed that épée fencers have a high maximal aerobic power and high maximal isometric and dynamic strength.
(10) They want to be astronauts, you’ve got fencers at the Olympics and ice skaters going to the Winter Olympics , female air crew for Brunei airways – these are young people who are really battling the fact that they have aspirations that should be unfettered versus a reality that is trying to confine them to a particular box.” But, she acknowledges, not all young Muslims are Generation M. Inclusion does not depend on disposable income or level of education, but sharing the characteristics of faith and modernity.
(11) In a double blind test on 40 men and women high performance fencers the influence of a multivitamin-electrolyte-preparation on reaction time, hit-frequency and neuromuscular irritability was determined.
(12) The results give further evidence of special patterns of visual processing in athletes, like fencers, in agreement with the literature.
(13) The test subjects were ten world class epée fencers from the Swedish national team.
(14) Bach was already a promising fencer at the age of five when his parents forced him into the sport against his will (he preferred football).
(15) An increase of the mean circadian values of T concentration in venous blood was found in females fencers (n = 9).
(16) It accused him of cheating when he was a young fencer by using a wet glove to disable the scoring system, of paying inducements to sports stars when he was an Adidas executive and of being named in Stasi files over an influence-peddling scheme.
(17) The documentary featured allegations that he had cheated as a young fencer by using a wet glove to fool the electronic scoring system and claimed the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of which he is president, is anti-Israeli.
(18) The Mail Online went on to describe one of the judges, Sir Terence Etherton, as “an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”.
(19) Visual evoked potentials were recorded from occipital and temporal leads in the two cerebral hemispheres of eight fencers and eight control subjects.
(20) Mogulof quotes one teammate as saying Mayer kept speaking of the oak tree presented to each gold medal winner, mourning the fact she couldn’t plant the tree in her homeland where it would bloom as an eternal reminder of the once golden fencer who had come back to win in the face of hate.
Swashbuckler
Definition:
(n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Only Chelsea are above Brendan Rodgers' swashbuckling side in the Premier League table now.
(3) Eliot Spitzer, who as the swashbuckling New York state attorney general unearthed the stock ramping of the dotcom bubble, was elected governor of New York in January 2007 but lasted less than 18 months after he was linked to a prostitution ring and forced to quit.
(4) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(5) It was hard to know what to expect from United: would we see the swashbuckling side that stormed past Olympiakos on Wednesday night to reach the last eight of the Champions League or the one that was embarrassed by Liverpool?
(6) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(7) The film begins in 2008, and follows the WikiLeaks founder's ascent from underground hacktivist to international terrorist, in the eyes of Washington, or swashbuckling cyberhero to his admirers.
(8) The appearance of Ballesteros on that list is especially pertinent, given the swashbuckling style which links him and Mickelson.
(9) Peacock was a swashbuckling centre-forward when he was on Bristol City’s books as a schoolboy, until he was 14.
(10) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(11) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(12) He’s the Bundesliga’s most successful foreign goal-scorer (176 goals before the start of the season), he looks like a swashbuckling 1950s film star and his signing promised nothing less than a return to the good old times, when Werder weren’t serial relegation contenders but taking on Europe’s heavyweights in the Champions League.
(13) Swashbuckling victories over Croatia caught the eye, but Terry's most admirable display came in leading a youthful team to victory in Berlin.
(14) Predictably, Cardinale and Rochefort had worked together before – in a 1962 swashbuckler called Cartouche, also starring Jean-Paul Belmondo .
(15) Barely 12 months later, the Shell lifer has turned into a swashbuckling corporate acquirer, agreeing to take over BG in one of the biggest deals ever seen in the energy sector.
(16) The Algerian, Spanish and even Germans fans in Gijón were disgusted by what they witnessed and waved white hankies and so on to protest,” says Chaabane Merzekane, a full-back whose swashbuckling performance in toppling the Germans earned him the man-of-the-match award.
(17) He was seen as a back-to-basics operator by the City who loved Browne's swashbuckling style until the share price began to suffer after the Texas City fire, a pipeline spill in Alaska and a propylene trading scandal.
(18) Their eye-pleasing, swashbuckling style has served them well on the domestic front over the past two seasons, but not so well in Europe.
(19) A similar swashbuckling spirit – and, perhaps, Ferdinand's presence on the coaching staff – was one of the factors that attracted Pienaar to Spurs.
(20) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.