How to Use kick-ass in a Sentence
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But at least it was done in the most kick-ass way possible.
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Jack King,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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The wicked original was a black satire with ripping action and a kick-ass lead played with intelligence.
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Michael Ordoña,
Houston Chronicle,
19 Mar. 2026
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Once back in Eternia the action ramps up big time, and Knight gets to stage several kick-ass battles.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
2 June 2026
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Datebook Picks The wicked original was a black satire with ripping action and a kick-ass lead played with intelligence.
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Michael Ordoña,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Mar. 2026
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Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Dec. 2025
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These are all kick-ass, talented, unbelievable filmmakers.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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At that point, a loud drum fill announces itself, snarling electric guitars kick in and McCartney’s trademark howls of old arrive in time for a fairly kick-ass chorus.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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Rønning does get his own kick-ass score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, all ominous throbbing, but can’t come up with anything visually distinctive.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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With his roundhouse kicks, tough-guy one-liners and a formidable moral compass, Chuck Norris delivered kick-ass heroes for years on screens large and small, cementing himself in pop culture back in the 1980s.
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Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Knight’s work includes SAS Rogue Heroes, Peaky Blinders and Eastern Promises, all of them featuring kick-ass, bone-crunching scenes.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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The film features a kick-ass soundtrack (Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac, Donna Summer and more), balletic cinematography and has a great pace to it and some wild action set pieces.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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But as bad as the camps were, the season otherwise did a great job of incorporating Chinese culture into the theme of the challenges and rewards—including an overnight on the Great Wall and a kick-ass trip to the Shaolin Temple.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 May 2026
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To celebrate 40 years of the anthropomorphic turtle brothers, the episode featured cameos from the characters and super-secret sewer clues throughout, and was kicked off by a kick-ass performance from panelist Ken Jeong, who seems to be getting more into the singing side of things this season.
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Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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