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 | 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
  • 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

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