Martial in a sentence as a noun

Most martial arts is practicing moves over and over again.

If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.

Are you suggesting that we enact martial law for the sake of prohibition?

Metal music and martial arts are time-honored hobbies for nerds.

If kids go to martial arts training expecting this, they will be sorely disappointed.

Martial in a sentence as an adjective

Real martial arts isn't guys jumping 30 ft at each other, or fighting 10 opponents at once, doing somersaults, etc.

What you want to achieve today is far different from what you thought you'd wanted out of martial arts in the beginning.

It wasn't martial law security theater - it was unprecedented community-level collaboration.

Contrary to the current HN title, the article points out:Evidence presented during Private Manning’s court-martial for his role as the source for large archives of military and diplomatic files given to WikiLeaks revealed that he had used a program called “wget” to download the batches of files.

The largely peaceful transition from martial law and one-party dictatorship to pluralistic rule by law with free press and free elections that I saw in Taiwan[1] is just one example of a people power revolution where the dictator was baffled because there were few violent incidents on the part of the opposition to stir up a violent response from the regime.

Martial definitions

noun

Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)

See also: Martial

adjective

(of persons) befitting a warrior; "a military bearing"

See also: soldierly soldierlike warriorlike

adjective

suggesting war or military life

See also: warlike

adjective

of or relating to the armed forces; "martial law"