Vocabulary Word
Word: champion
Definition: support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.)
Definition: support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.)
Sentences Containing 'champion'
Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hill, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?
Dorothea, seeing how short and slight his attire was, would not go in to witness the battle between her champion and her opponent.
Your worship's great courage has been fully manifested already; no brave champion, so it strikes me, is bound to do more than challenge his enemy and wait for him on the field; if his adversary does not come, on him lies the disgrace, and he who waits for him carries off the crown of victory."
When Don Quixote saw it, rendered in such lifelike style that one would have said Christ was speaking and Paul answering, "This," he said, "was in his time the greatest enemy that the Church of God our Lord had, and the greatest champion it will ever have; a knight-errant in life, a steadfast saint in death, an untiring labourer in the Lord's vineyard, a teacher of the Gentiles, whose school was heaven, and whose instructor and master was Jesus Christ himself."
'This is a fellow,' she said, 'to champion and bring here, is he not?
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