How To Use Prizefight In A Sentence
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The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
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(such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.
Main Features
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He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's (1907; Cleveland, Mus. of Art), a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight.
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The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry.
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Backstage, he would be like a prizefighter waiting to get out there.
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The most important prizefight in boxing's history would take place on Boxing's biggest stage - Madison Square Garden.
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Injuries contributed to a less-than-stellar career as a prizefighter.
Houston Chronicle
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At home he exercised on a trampoline and chinning bar and did roadwork like a prizefighter.
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Last night nearly 5,000 people in Cardiff witnessed a massacre and not a prizefight.
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Injuries contributed to a less-than-stellar career as a prizefighter.
Houston Chronicle
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Eric considers this phase of the research as similar to a prizefight.
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That said, modern boxing appears almost genteel alongside its prizefighting predecessor in which bareknuckled pugilists fought to exhaustion, with fights often lasting several hours.
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The physical toll of a prizefight is often not apparent immediately following the contest.
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He moves around opponents with a litheness and grace unexpected in most prizefighters, let alone movie stars.
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The government's task was made more difficult by the fact that wealthy and influential colonists were among the most devoted followers of prizefighting.
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Then, suddenly, he swung into wounded prizefighter mode.
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During one prizefight in Nevada, the World deployed four-foot-tall puppets to illustrate the blows as they were transmitted by telegraph from ringside.
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But prizefighting was not, in fact, a major avenue of social mobility.
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The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry.
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The prizefighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.
The Somnambulists
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He grasped his hands together and shook them above his head as if in a title prizefight.
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But Bronfman had always spoken with more eloquence than most high school dropouts, just as he had always been more combative than most prizefighters and cockier than most roosters.
LAST CALL
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The whole point of a debate - like a prizefight - is for somebody to win, and a pundit who declares a debate a draw is as worthless as the pundit who says ‘no comment’ to a direct question.
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems
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Before the eating of chicken wings began around 8 a.m., 29 contestants made grand entrances with their entourages, as if this were a prizefight.
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Seemingly as vibrant as the day he first stepped into the ring, this is one prizefighter who just cannot be broken.
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With the fight less than a week away, as many as half the seats remain unsold, but when the television money comes in, it could still end up being the richest prizefight ever.
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The project culminates in a Battle of the Bands that has all the hoopla of a Rocky prizefight.
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So you're runnin 'with a prizefighter," he sneered.
CHAPTER XII
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If his radical Professional Boxing Act becomes law, it could significantly alter how prizefighting is conducted around the world.
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So since you have replaced your law career with a career as a prizefighter, do you have some other aspirations when you leave boxing?
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But in Maggie's fatal prizefight the German fighter hits her from behind after the bell has rung, and what happens next is pure accident.
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More obvious, is: one sanctioning body, fewer titles and experiment with using smaller gloves, shorter and more action packed fights, tournaments (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights.
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Moreover, he is often part of the broadcast teams at the major prizefights.
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Like hitting the slot machine right and watching coins come spilling out, a major prizefight is similar in that regard.
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You've no idea, Saxon, how a prizefighter is run after.
CHAPTER XI
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A variant of the Gursky crowd scene, Klitschko depicts the scene of a prizefight in Germany.
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The enterprises that endured and, quite frankly, thrived were those that exhibited the characteristics of the best prizefighters: stamina, agility, intelligence, and tenacity.
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He won provincial boxing and Golden Gloves championships and won 102 of 108 fights as a prizefighter.
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Then, suddenly, he swung into wounded prizefighter mode.
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It is my job to restore this prizefighter to form.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a prizefighter who is willing to show all my best things in the ring.
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No prizefighter, no hero in pinstripes was a greater champion for New York.
Martin Nolan: Hugh Carey: New York Mensch
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In its heyday, boxing was known as prizefighting, a sporting event that is rich in history and culture.
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Tyson's handlers, scouring the globe for a safe opponent, scheduled his next fight on June 11 with club fighter Kevin McBride, the slowest prizefighter in the business.
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In ‘The Death of Benny Paret,’ Mailer describes a prizefight he witnessed where one boxer beats another to death in the ring.
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The wind belts you like a prizefighter.
Smithsonian
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Backstage, he would be like a prizefighter waiting to get out there.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wasn't shoutin 'things out to anybody, but I just made myself into a committee of welcome; an', when the train pulled in, there I was, extendin 'the glad hand of the burg -- likewise the glad hand of a guy you used to know in Oakland once, a third-rate dub prizefighter by the name of -- lemme see -- yep, I got it right -- Big
CHAPTER XX
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The wind belts you like a prizefighter.
Smithsonian
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All three prizefighters were so naturally talented that they would've won Gold while boxing in blindfolds.
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It is my job to restore this prizefighter to form.
Times, Sunday Times
