How to Use prizefight in a Sentence

prizefight

noun

• 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
• 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
• Two years of breathless coverage of TikTok as a fresh-faced force of delight and opportunity has made the app feel like an underdog bet in a prizefight against entrenched ne’er-do-wells, such as Trump and Facebook.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2020
• 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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