How to Use prizefight in a Sentence

prizefight

noun
  • Only one thing besides injury could have derailed this prizefight.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • Bevin bells open and close the New York Stock Exchange, mark rounds at prizefights and call kids to ice cream trucks.
    — Laurencia Ciprus, courant.com, 18 May 2018
  • But the outcome of this prizefight in at Allen Fieldhouse will depend upon the dozens and dozens of small acts within the game.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Purcell Marian landed some shots and turned the game's final minutes into a prizefight.
    — Alex Harrison, Cincinnati.com, 7 Mar. 2020
  • During the early stages of a basketball game, the burly center resembles a heavyweight boxer prior to a prizefight.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Yet on Saturday, Glendale's favorite boxing son will find himself in the biggest prizefight of his career.
    — Grant Gordon, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • There’s ample footage of earlier prizefights where Paul knocks down opponents and Tyson, who in his prime years was known for explosive first round knockouts.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Every prizefight asks its participants to play roles, to ratchet up tension—real or perceived—in order to goose public interest.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • On her daily run passing all manner of wild posts that include images of herself facing off with Mahler, as if promising a live V prizefight between the two of them.
    — Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • As in any good prizefight, everybody came out the richer Friday, putting aside the potentially severe internal injuries.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2016
  • The movie sets up a kind of prizefight between the master manipulator, Frank Langella as Nixon, and the out-of-his-depth entertainer.
    — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Alabama got together at Bryant-Denny Stadium for a bloody prizefight between that season’s top heavyweights.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Capturing the ferocity and grace of a prizefight in the theater is a monumental challenge, says director Robert Barry Fleming.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Virginia created holiday packages resembling a prizefight that ends with an embrace between boxers who have been trying to knock each other out.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023

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