prize fight
Example Sentences
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The flurry of a finish started off more like a prize fight, each team taking its turn landing blows in a game of wild swings.
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Frightened Americans didn’t want to watch a prize fight — they wanted reassurance.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022
"It's very easy for me to say, 'it's a fight, it's a prize fight, it's dangerous, I've got to pay people as much as I can to fight'," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2022
The Monarchs roster includes Matt Adams, a former St. Louis Cardinals first baseman, a bear of a man known as “Big City,” who is recruited for a mock pregame weigh-in, like at a prize fight.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022
She kangaroo-hopped and waved her fists above her head like she had won a prize fight.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
