boxing

Example Sentences

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A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

He and his brother Stephen, who is also a boxer, met Lamar while he was boxing at the same gym they were training at.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

In nearby Habana Vieja, the historic city center, nine families who decamped from a collapsed building three years ago are still living in a boxing gym.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Francis Ngannou dropped out of school to work in a sand quarry at 10 years old and illegally migrated from Cameroon to France to pursue boxing, and went from homeless to heavyweight champion.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026

The others crowded around me, boxing me in.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros