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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "heavyweight" in a sentence

    heavyweight example sentences

    heavyweight


    1. Specialises in household fabrics … heavyweight curtain fabrics, that sort of thing


    2. I fall in love with a dress in pale green … full length and layered with an underskirt of a deep green silk with a sort of shimmery, floaty heavyweight pale green chiffon over the top with embroidered flowers round the edges


    3. We frequently saw a famous heavyweight boxer amongst them


    4. The holder of the heavyweight championship belt was once considered hot stuff


    5. diplomat, had asked him to interfere with a heavyweight political crisis


    6. went through this heavyweight treatment that was still being


    7. He was faced with accepting the cash offer or being labeled a northern cheapskate by a well-known financial heavyweight


    8. Muhammed Ali probably was the greatest heavyweight of all time but he paid dearly for his title


    9. His heart felt like a heavyweight boxer was pounding through his ribs


    10. On leaving school he studied law at Queen's University, Belfast, and took up boxing, winning the Irish Universities Heavyweight Championship

    11. Mikey entered a heavyweight champ, but left after a knockout in the fourth round


    12. Jaitley, whom he implicitly trusted, was given the heavyweight finance and defence portfolios


    13. At the crunch meeting the heavyweight selling principal unexpectedly asked me to


    14. Why not make the courses for the horses instead of flogging the lagging but to no avail; it’s only in the sports that the differing capabilities are appreciated to devise ways and means for all to have their place under the sun; won’t the bantam and heavy weight classification in boxing, wrestling and weightlifting suggest that; the perils of pitting a lightweight champion even against a heavyweight trainee are not beyond anybody’s imagination


    15. This is a heavyweight grammar book which is reflected in the price


    16. This is another heavyweight grammar book


    17. Maybe he was worried if his heavyweight wasn't as out of it as he seemed


    18. “Lead, the heavyweight and condemned because


    19. Have three weight classes for the players: heavyweight, middleweight, and lightweight


    20. Would it be suitable for defeating a heavyweight Serbian wrestler? I ask because I recently faced up to one of these brutes and he defeated me easily, but only because he was significantly larger than I

    21. The two lawyers shook hands with all the warmth of heavyweight boxers about to start the first round


    22. ROARK (ROCKY) O’BANNION: Black Irish Catholic mobster with Saudi ancestry and the compact, powerful body of a heavyweight champion boxer, which he is


    23. In the final days before the Poughkeepsie Regatta, another big sports story dominated the headlines on sports pages and sometimes on front pages around the country—the story of a heavyweight boxing match


    24. Max Schmeling of Germany had been the heavyweight champion of the world from 1930 to 1932, and he was set on reclaiming the title from James Braddock


    25. Joe Louis would reign as heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1949, long after Joseph Goebbels’s charred body had been pulled out of the smoldering rubble of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin and laid next to those of Magda and their children


    26. The guy’s face was turned away high and back, so Reacher’s boot caught him under the chin, like a monstrous uppercut from a heavyweight with a horseshoe in his glove


    27. “All the way from New York,” Buddy said proudly, as if his case was so important heavyweight legal talent had to be imported


    28. He had once been a promising heavyweight boxer in the Crimea and, judging by the few pictures Blomkvist found online, he looked ravaged and brutal


    29. "Want to be a global heavyweight in the telecommunications game? Better buy that small wireless company in Indiana to expand your footprint and fill in your service area


    30. Fighting for the Heavyweight Championship with One Hand Tied behind Your Back: Predicting Future Earnings while Ignoring the Existing Balance Sheet

    31. When he joined the Nation of Islam, changed his name, and refused to be drafted into the US military, white America was decidedly unamused: Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and imprisoned


    32. 18 cm (5 ft 7 in), Tommy Burns (Canada), who outpointed Marvin Hart (USA) over 20 rounds for the world championship on 23 February 1906, was the shortest ever heavyweight title winner


    33. Yes, theoretically, it is possible to consistently beat the market (which typically returns around 8 percent after you account for inflation) in the same way it is possible for me to become a heavyweight boxing champion


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    Synonyms for "heavyweight"

    behemoth colossus giant heavyweight titan hulk whale

    "heavyweight" definitions

    an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds


    a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds


    a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds


    a very large person; impressive in size or qualities


    a person of exceptional importance and reputation