How to Use boxer in a Sentence

boxer

noun
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  • The title was a nod to the phrase used as boxers’ enter the ring.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • More than once, over the past few years, novices have held their own with top boxers.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • So hours later, there was the stage and neither boxer was on it.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The outcome isn’t shown, even though the freeze-frame of the boxers was turned into a LeRoy Neiman painting.
    — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
  • He was stripped to his boxers, a T-shirt and socks before being placed in a cell alone.
    — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The boxer — or the entertainer — is nowhere to be found.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Pension amounts are determined by how many rounds the boxer fought and the size of the purses.
    — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the biggest boxers in the world take to the ring tonight for what promises to be an epic heavyweight title fight in Poland.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 26 Aug. 2023
  • As the boxer in this matchup, most predictions have Fury favored to win.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Based on a Naver webtoon of the same name, this action thriller revolves around two young boxers who enter the world of loan sharks.
    — Time, 14 June 2023
  • Wade planned to put Paul, the social media star turned pro boxer, through 2.5 miles of running.
    — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • A touch of elastane gives them a four-way stretch so these boxers can move with you instead of bunching up.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
  • George Foreman has won and lost everything that a boxer can dream of inside the ring.
    — Arturo Conde, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Pound for pound, as boxers say, this is one of the most fearsome pieces of artillery in modern warfare.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Cedric ‘Beastie’ Jones, who starred in the movie Emancipation and was a boxer, has died.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The older bear of a guy holds his arms up like a boxer as the younger one jockeys with the pole, falls backward off a curb, then lithely spins back to his feet.
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Jones is widely considered one of the greatest boxers of all-time.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Detectives said Barrett had blood on his head and face, his cell phone, two pairs of gloves, his boxers and belt at the time of his arrest.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Max trains as a boxer Max took up boxing in 2021, and he’s said it’s improved his health and overall well-being.
    — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The duo first worked together on a series about a slight young girl from L.A.’s Eastside who yearned to become a boxer.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Customers should also expect to see the Rocky’s wall of famous boxers.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 17 May 2023
  • Most of the boxers on the card are from southeast Wisconsin, and a number are making their pro debuts.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
  • In the course of the book, the diminutive economist, who stood just over five feet tall, comes to seem like nothing so much as a welterweight boxer.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a robe and boxer combo both you and a significant other are sure to love.
    — Michelle Duncan, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Ryan O’Neal trained as a boxer before the family moved for a time to Munich, Germany.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Ali was a heavyweight boxer who in his prime was known for his combination of power and strength in the ring and his bravado out of it.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a bigger blow for viewership and revenues than any one that the boxers received inside the ring.
    — Nelson Granados, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • His events were the first real exposure for a lot of talented young boxers who were trying to make their way up the ranks.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The boxer Sulem Urbina braided Seniesa Estrada’s hair before the fight.
    — Kurt Streeter Erin Schaff, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Full details on how to buy tickets, which boxers will fight on the undercards and the co-main event will be announced at a later date.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024

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