How to Use prizefighter in a Sentence

prizefighter

noun
  • The prizefighter, the pop star, the pro-football player, the prophet.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Nolan Arenado wore the cut above his left eye like a prizefighter.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Learn Boxing from the Best Impressed by the jabs and hooks of world-class prizefighters?
    — Anna Kim, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2024
  • My little prizefighter, made of plaster, had a larger-than-life counterpart.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The pair got carried away in their conversation and forgot about the heavyweight prizefighter standing with them.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 12 July 2024
  • El-Masry is transformed as the prizefighter who boasted an exuberant flair for tacky pizazz in and out of the ring.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In the next scene, the boy is no longer dressed like a prizefighter, but in street clothes with a teddy bear sticking out of his backpack, embracing his parents.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Berry acquired at least a few of her injuries while playing a prizefighter in the 2021 film, Bruised.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The Spartans instead seized an early lead, played staunch defense and kept punching like a scrappy prizefighter.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Buffalo this year was the prizefighter dropping his gloves, sticking out his chin and daring any of three opponents to land a haymaker.
    — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But Ford had stripped these two unpainted entries down to the chassis, like prizefighters shedding final pounds before weigh-in.
    — Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Suddenly, Nadal punched the air like a prizefighter, flexing his arms like a bodybuilder, pumping his fists overhead, then dropping to his knees as tears flowed.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Nowhere is that bond stronger than with hip-hop, with prizefighters walking out to the ring with their favorite artists, rap verses referencing greats of the sport, and boxers dropping albums of their own.
    — Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Finding his place as a prizefighter is not something Paul’s inner circle necessarily saw coming.
    — Mike Bohn, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Ramírez jumped to his feet, and the two wound up throwing up their hands like prizefighters, ending with both landing punches and Ramírez knocking Anderson backward.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The wobble descended into her shoulders, trunk, and hips, until Jenny was lurching like a swollen-eyed prizefighter fumbling for his corner.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Ford’s Lightning, which has now had two years to edge its way into the world of the electric-buying public, is a prizefighter of a machine, quick-as-lightning, brawny, handsome and worthy.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Rappers and prizefighters are two sides of the same coin, willing to stand toe-to-toe with an opponent, battling from the bottom to the top, and finding inspiration from larger-than-life figures.
    — Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The coronavirus appears destined to march its way through the Greek alphabet—a prizefighter getting quicker, slicker, stronger with each opponent.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • George had anticipated this and given orders to keep her out of Westminster Abbey, even hiring prizefighters as queen-bouncers.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • As his three bandmates stoically created the bouncy soundtrack, Herring pumped his fist like a victorious prizefighter.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Costner was a very successful middleweight prizefighter in the 1950s, when too many hits to the eyes blinded him completely and permanently.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 July 2022
  • Taylor appreciated that, during the postgame celebration, Roberts held Taylor’s arm up to the crowd, like a winning prizefighter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Competitors enter, prizefighter-like, through an inflatable tunnel sponsored by Johnsonville Sausage.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Khan’s role, that of a prizefighter, demanded a lot of physicality but the team opted for a naturalistic body type for the actor based on the South Asian wrestling style Pehlwani.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Most people participating in American warrior culture are not prizefighters, of course, and relatively few are veterans.
    — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Ali, who died in 2016 after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease, was both a talented prizefighter and an international symbol of pacifism.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2021
  • And then New York ended the series an evening later, on a tenth-inning homer by Soto, whose numerous baseball talents include a prizefighter’s swaggering eagerness to shuffle and then pounce.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Hundreds of thousands of Court TV viewers watched as a prizefighter known for knocking out 32 opponents, testified that her much older and seemingly frail husband had nearly killed her.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 26 June 2021

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