prizefight
IPA: prˈaɪzfaɪt
noun
- A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money).
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Examples of "prizefight" in Sentences
- His father Jacob had also been a prizefighter.
- This was followed by a stint as a prizefighter.
- She was also the host of the Prizefight series.
- Thompson was also a prizefighter of some renown.
- He trains as a prizefighter but can not stop drinking.
- You're shadowboxing like some punch drunk prizefighter.
- He was the winner of the fourth Prizefighter tournament.
- For a while he became a prizefighter and music hall turn.
- The fight was one of the most brutal in prizefight history.
- It was like a prizefight stopped during round one by the referee.
- He also admitted he'd attended one "prizefight" in his life - presumably not in the era when such a term was widely used.
- Jack Johnson was so impressed by Gans's swinging joint that he used his own prizefight earnings to start the Cotton Club.
- Sun minimized some of the "gifts" itemized in the government's case, such as prizefight tickets and World Series luxury box seats.
- The prizefight has been presented, entertainingly, in the usual terms – of highbrow versus lowbrow culture, of pompous literary elites against good, old-fashioned readers.
- Spokespeople for the campaigns who appeared on television after the debate offered a different view, insisting their candidate had clearly routed the other, and had it been a prizefight, it would have been stopped by the referee in the early rounds.
- 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.