Example sentences for: sumo

How can you use “sumo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sumo wrestlers and Kabuki actors were the celebrities, and artists advertised their prowess in cheap color woodblock prints (see Katsukawa Shun'ei's The Sumo Wrestlers Kajihama and Jinmaku , circa 1790, and Toshusai Sharaku's The Kabuki Actor Otani Oniji III as the Servant Edohei , 1794).

  • If you can, go out of your way to spend a few hours of watching live sumo.

  • Today, sumo champions — the only men still allowed to wear the samurai warrior’s gleaming top-knot hairdo — are national heroes and are much in demand for TV commercials.

  • Canaries wrestling (lucha canaria): Rather like sumo wrestling, lucha canaria is a mixture of civilized ritual and caveman huffing and puffing.

  • Of the traditional Japanese sports, sumo wrestling is the most popular.


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