Sentence examples for absorb punishment from inspiring English sources

It's a strange thing to do, passively watch other people absorb punishment.

With each passing fight he displayed an almost ungodly ability to absorb punishment from the biggest hitters in prizefighting.

Martin is muscular and strong-willed, someone who has taken up mixed martial arts for a variety of reasons, including learning how best to absorb punishment.

These are the women who absorb punishment and provide gee-whiz thrills so that other actors — usually but not always men — can be lighter, funnier and more "relatable," and can focus on family or romance or bromance.

The question of the guided-missile age is whether one ship armed with missiles can sink more than one of the enemy, in spite of the enemy's defenses and ability to absorb punishment.

As his career developed, he discovered the talent that was both his greatest strength and his eventual undoing: an almost unprecedented ability to absorb punishment, to take a punch.

Serbia's forces could not indefinitely go on absorbing punishment at the rate NATO has recently been meting it out, with up to 400 air attacks per day by bombers now swooping in from Hungary and Turkey as well as from NATO bases in Italy.

Originally slated to face former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Maldonado (22-7, 5-4 UFC) is primarily a boxer who has developed a reputation for delivering violent exchanges while absorbing punishment from opponents.

Cotto was a ferocious fighter who seemed to administer or absorb severe punishment every bout.

But faced with the younger Foreman, Ali spent six months learning to absorb heavy punishment.

It's a sustained bashing and you have to teach your body to absorb that punishment.