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Example sentences for: boxing

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UFC's promoters predicted that it would supplant boxing as America's martial art.
You can stay up as in keeping awake, or stay down as in hugging the boxing ring mat for fear of your opponent, yet to stay up can be the opposite of to stay down—it just depends on the context.
But it's just the reverse: The purpose of boxing gloves is not to cushion the head but to shield the knuckles.
When I asked him to explain the moral distinction between boxing and ultimate fighting, he exploded at me, "If you can't see the moral distinction, then we have nothing to talk about!"
The NYT reports that the American negotiator Richard Holbrooke did not persuade Milosevic to allow the international war crimes tribunal to have jurisdiction in the region, and the LAT passes along the concerns of some analysts that the Serbs might take some observers hostage, thus boxing out NATO's ability to deter Milosevic via the threat of airstrikes.