Example sentences for: heavyweight

How can you use “heavyweight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Like Wade, he's a heavyweight too big and too unstable for the room.

  • For instance, a `wrestler or boxer over 175 pounds' is called a heavyweight (p.

  • When all the heavyweight bad guys are dead or in jail (and his celebrity endorsements dry up), he contrives to have one of his old nemeses, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) released from the insane asylum--a bad move, as it turns out, since Amazing has got rusty and Frankenstein has had plenty of time to hatch a diabolical scheme.

  • Boxing officials ordered a rematch of the March 13 heavyweight championship fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis . Fans and sports writers are in an uproar because the judges called the fight a draw--despite a huge disparity of punches in Lewis' favor and the widespread perception of spectators that Lewis won.

  • Although this is a picayunish point, consider that wrestlers are also divided up, according to the author, into lightweight, featherweight, welterweight, middleweight , and heavyweight , as are boxers.


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