shadowboxing
IPA: ʃˈædoʊbˈɑksɪŋ
noun
- A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent.
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Examples of "shadowboxing" in Sentences
- Failing to do this, we are just shadowboxing.
- I find this shadowboxing to be quite tedious.
- Nowadays he is shadowboxing with ghosts from the past.
- You're shadowboxing like some punch drunk prizefighter.
- If you can win with shadowboxing that is better than real boxing.
- Y'all should see DRV for the really comical shadowboxing he was doing.
- I saw a clip on the news last night of McCain at some event shadowboxing and pounding his fist into his palm.
- It is largely shadowboxing, but it takes on an especial importance among those of us who share a concern that is centuries dated.
- As Jack approached the center of the room, he found Skerren practicing his swordplay, shadowboxing against a stationary suit of armor.
- Without a nominee to defend, the White House is left shadowboxing vague accusations about nameless judicial activists threatening to overrun the high court.
- Mariah's disses are about as intimidating as Scrappy Doo's shadowboxing ( "I'm the press conference/And you a conversation," or how 'bout, "Seeing right through you like you're bathing in Windex"?), thus hilarious.
- Certainly not in the United States—with two hundred thousand women already enrolled in the BCDDP and therefore not eligible for another trial, and its bickering academic community shadowboxing over the interpretation of shadows.
- His shadowboxing is an attempt to portray himself as acting IN SUPPORT OF KEEPING MUHLENBERG OPEN, which is about as far from the facts as you can get -- given his setting up a task force to make preparations for shutting down the hospital.
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