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Example sentences for: sumo
How can you use “sumo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"By dominating sumo, the Americans have finally got the Japanese back for beating us in manufacturing."
Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.
What happens when a 620-pound sumo champion fights a 200-pound kickboxer?
But you've got to be in the mood, for this is an art that, like Wagnerian opera or sumo wrestling (both wickedly caricatured by Burne-Jones), requires a suspension of ordinary impatience.
Sumo tournaments are held in January, May, and September at the Kuramae Kokugikan in Tokyo, during March in Osaka, in July in Nagoya, and in November in Fukuoka (Kyushu).
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