What's the difference between fighter and pugnacious?

Fighter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
  • (2) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
  • (3) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
  • (4) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
  • (5) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
  • (6) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (7) Civil activities have a strong vision for and a commitment to Ukraine’s European future, but they lack the experience necessary to implement crucial reforms The presence of more than 30 civil society activists and dozens of fighters on various party lists ensures fresh blood in the Rada.
  • (8) Two fighters took me and held me prisoner in their house.
  • (9) By some estimates, Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation – between 350 and 550 , out of a total population of 11 million that includes fewer than half a million Muslims.
  • (10) So who are these Syrian fighters that Cameron is relying on?
  • (11) However, I want to see how both fighters handle what will be an extraordinary fight week before I make my own.
  • (12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
  • (13) An estimated 1,000 people from Odessa have joined separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.
  • (14) Prior to the "smoke-free" resolution, one fire department in Florida required that new fire fighters be non-smokers.
  • (15) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
  • (16) Another 57 fighters with the al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaida, were killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib, the Observatory said.
  • (17) A recent video featured Bosnian fighters urging their countrymen to join the group.
  • (18) The rebel army of about 9,000 fighters is half the size it once was, but far from being defeated militarily.
  • (19) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (20) Without ball the first fighter and with it he seems clear.

Pugnacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
  • (2) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
  • (3) Nel, nicknamed "the pitbull", is diminutive and pugnacious and a sharp contrast to the tall, silver-haired, urbane Roux.
  • (4) The Guardian has found that Trump’s pugnacious campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski , has more experience in this field than was previously known, having resorted to litigation in his only election as a candidate himself.
  • (5) It appeared to be designed as a permanent – and pugnacious – installation, with none of the usual ropes and pulleys.
  • (6) I wouldn’t have gone in.” National security also sparked the standout clash of the night, when Paul, the libertarian who did most in the Senate to end the bulk collection of phone records in the wake of the disclosures from the whistleblower Edward Snowden , collided with Chris Christie, the pugnacious New Jersey governor.
  • (7) On Friday morning, Rahm Emanuel, the brilliantly pugnacious mayor of Chicago, and former White House chief of staff, told me that, as the grandson of a migrant, he would not assist Trump’s attempts to entrap undocumented children, but instead continue to support them through his community college programme.
  • (8) The pugnacious Schulberg rejected this and broke with party discipline, publishing What Makes Sammy Run?
  • (9) McBride, a football-loving and pugnacious former Treasury civil servant drawn into Brown's inner circle, paid yesterday with his career.
  • (10) "Blowing up the Red Road eyesores is a typically pugnacious Glaswegian way of celebrating the Games.
  • (11) Getting out of the third round proved as tough as he suspected for Dimitrov, who needed three hours and 28 minutes to subdue the pugnacious crowd favourite Marcos Baghdatis in five competitive sets in the early-afternoon heat.
  • (12) Montgomerie, who now edits the Times comment section, had suggested that Gove was excessively "pugnacious and confrontational" in his dealings with the teaching profession.
  • (13) Despite Blanco’s refusal, Ramirez announced he was imposing state command over Cuernavaca’s police, and he suggested dark forces were influencing the pugnacious former athlete, who has never before held public office.
  • (14) Rumpole of the Bailey, the pugnacious barrister created by John Mortimer, of course constantly resisted promotion to the bench.
  • (15) He certainly demonstrates a similar steely resolve, pugnaciousness and disdain for consensus politics that was the hallmark of the Iron Lady.
  • (16) The pugnacious Bannon, a former head of the rightwing Bretibart News who has been dubbed “Trump’s Rasputin”, spoke as if on permanent war footing.
  • (17) • China's "newly pugnacious" foreign policy is "losing friends worldwide", the US ambassador to Beijing argued in a cable .
  • (18) Chris Christie , the pugnacious governor of New Jersey who staked his 2016 presidential campaign on a strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, has suspended his candidacy after winning less than 10% of the vote on Tuesday, a campaign staffer confirmed to the Guardian.
  • (19) Erdoğan said voters had opted for stability, but in characteristically pugnacious form in Istanbul, he also attacked the global media and its criticism of him.
  • (20) As charming and as pugnacious as ever, he survived what might have been disgrace and was certainly unpopularity as an active, cheerful and still optimistic man.