How to Use prizefight in a Sentence

prizefight

noun
Definition of prizefightnext
  • 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
  • From there, the game turned into a back-and-forth prizefight: Kansas scored 10 straight, West Virginia answered with eight in a row and the Jayhawks responded with 10 more.
    — Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • From there, the game turned into a back-and-forth prizefight: Kansas scored 10 straight, West Virginia answered with eight in a row, and the Jayhawks responded with 10 more.
    — Dave Skretta, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Only one thing besides injury could have derailed this prizefight.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Purcell Marian landed some shots and turned the game's final minutes into a prizefight.
    — Alex Harrison, Cincinnati.com, 7 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Presidential races, Sharpton said, are like prizefights.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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

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