How to Use boxer in a Sentence

boxer

noun

• 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
• His hands are tough, like a boxer’s, but his skin is pale, and his curly hair has gone thin and white.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 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
• The Ukrainian boxer started out fast against Fury, but the British star owned Usyk in the middle rounds.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 May 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
• The boxer is a big fan of the NBA and is often pictured sitting courtside.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 7 June 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
• When the second quarter began, Crowe came out like a boxer who got a pep talk from his trainer.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 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
• By the end of the Clippers win, Lue laughed with a fan sitting near the team’s bench — the boxer Floyd Mayweather, no stranger to landing knockout blows.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• From berets to boxers, Olympic athletes are showing off all the free gifts they've been showered with from a variety of brands for fighting to bring home the gold.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 July 2024
• Both boys wear black tanks and boxers from Classics collection.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024