Example sentences for: heavyweight

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

  • Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.

  • And none provides more fodder for melancholy middle-aged comedy, from the heavyweight musings of Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being to the fluffy screwball machinations of Forces of Nature . In the latter, currently the most popular movie in the country, the filmmakers strain to bring together free spirit Sandra Bullock and affianced fuddy-duddy Ben Affleck.

  • According to a below-the-fold NYT front-page article, some heavyweight web sites like Geocities, Lycos-Tripod, and Ticketmaster have agreed to feed subscriber information to a tracking system.

  • 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.

  • Royce Gracie, a 180-pound Brazilian jujitsu specialist, was matched against a 275-pound beast named Dan Severn, one of the top heavyweight wrestlers in the world and a national champion many times over.


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