How to Use martial art in a Sentence

martial art

noun

• He was trained in the martial arts.
• The three of them believe martial arts can bring peace to the mind and body.
  — Dakota Hill, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
• This includes an unerring eye for the old and precious and ... the martial art of Krav Maga.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
• Indonesian martial arts star Iko Uwais fights with the grace of a dancer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019
• Both involved martial arts and Reeves was asked about the action.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• The proud mom also shared a video of herself and Kiyan taking a martial arts class.
  — Essence, 31 July 2024
• Then there’s Joe Rogan, who spread the gospel of the martial art to his millions of listeners.
  — Brian Roberts, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Chen, a martial arts instructor, had a role in The Intern, which starred De Niro.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• Even before Katana's husband's death, she was trained in the martial arts and was an expert with a sword.
  — Gina Vaynshteyn, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Murphy mastered the martial art well enough to earn a red belt with a black stripe, stopping just shy of a black belt.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
• My mother threw me into martial arts at a very young age.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
• The city, the country, the martial art supplied him more than a lifetime’s worth of memories.
  — Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
• Part of my training was learning a form of [the Israeli martial art] Krav Maga that members of the Mossad would have known in the ’60s.
  — Simon Abrams, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• That gave me the idea to create my own style of action, combining dance and martial arts.
  — Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2023
• There is a uniform feel to the clothes, based on martial arts clothes, that will highlight the core products of the accessories brand.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 19 June 2024
• In karate, one notable gold went to Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna, who hails from the martial art’s home of Okinawa.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 6 Aug. 2021
• He was kicked in the back of the head by an Uber driver, a flying kick delivered by someone who must have trained long in the martial arts.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Hardy has been fond of Brazilian jiu-jitsu for years, and has worked his way up to achieving a blue belt, the second rank (out of five) for adults in the martial art.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
• For most other martial arts sagas, this would be the jaw-dropping climax of the entire story.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
• Teigen then closed out the post with a snap of her eldest two kids wearing yellow belts over martial arts uniforms.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
• In Germany, leaders in the martial arts community have sought to push back on their own.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Some of the girls here used to be on cycling teams or performed spinning kicks at Korean martial arts gyms.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Adkins’ first taste of martial arts came around the age of 10, when he was inspired to take up Judo after watching Bruce Lee films.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• Fighting back, Heidi works her way through a swathe of Nazi storm troopers via martial art moves and deft work with a Swiss army knife, then a battle axe.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 26 May 2022
• Canadian actor Simu Liu will play a master of martial arts who faces off against The Mandarin.
  — Time, 21 July 2019
• The action includes high-speed chase scenes, martial arts battles, and even a daring rooftop escape.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• There are scenes with weapons and a few quick, off-camera deaths, as well as martial arts fighting, car chases and explosions.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Nick’s added a layer of buff muscle, something that traces back to his role as a cage fighter in the mixed-martial arts TV drama Kingdom.
  — Jason Gay, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2019
• The martial arts events are a little bit more complicated.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Could Daniel really leave martial arts behind and simply… move on?
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024