Sentence examples for a bigger opponent from inspiring English sources

The wind had turned into a bigger opponent than the guy standing down the other end, and whoever kept his cool for just one more set would walk away with a Grand Slam title.

Chook Raper told me how once in a game against Newtown he was flattened by a bigger opponent and Pop Clay came over and said, 'Come on, get up!

Márquez, in a rare excursion beyond 140lb, knows the dangers of mixing it with a bigger opponent from his doomed catchweight contest against Floyd Mayweather Jr three years ago, and that admirable caution will inform his strategy again.

Capitalizing on what many saw as his genius for explaining America's psyche to itself, Pinsky began to focus on what he considered a bigger opponent, the disease that lay beneath them all: a toxic new form of narcissism, stoked by the media.

Barrie spun the suggestion into a masterful spoof on the British class system: Lord Loam scandalises polite society by inviting his servants to take tea with him once a month, though, as it turns out, no one is a bigger opponent of such social reversal than the butler Crichton – who extols the security and order of "a haughty English house".

That extreme self confidence also allowed him to beat back a bigger opponent than football: alcoholism.

"A big win, a big opponent, a big match," said Mourinho.

"I had a big opponent and a tough schedule that I couldn't deal with.

But you're a big opponent of people being lazy aren't you?

He received word late Monday that Benjamin Becker of Germany was withdrawing, and Harrison was thrust onto a big court with a big opponent.

"We haven't drawn a small team, so we are warned that it will just be another top-level game and that is the advantage of having a big opponent - your team is focused naturally".