Sentence examples for heavyweight from inspiring English sources

The word "heavyweight" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective which can be used to describe a person or object that is of a very large, impressive or influential size or status. For example: "The heavyweight boxer won the match with a single punch."

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heavyweight

noun

A very large, heavy, or impressive person.

  • An intellectual heavyweight

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It made an arthouse star of Soderbergh and a heavyweight of his backer, Harvey Weinstein, whose studio, Miramax, would come to define quality American cinema over much of the next decade and, perhaps, help to destroy it too (read Indiewire's excellent piece on sex, lies for more on its legacy).

Gordon Brown has added his heavyweight credentials to the 'No' campaign, warning that a Scotland dominated by the SNP will not necessarily be more progressive than the status quo.

So the heavyweight division is back in the confusion from which Tyson rescued it.

Both are drawn from reviews in the Sunday Times by Waldemar Januszczak: "Rothko's problem… is the dark myth that he allowed to emerge around him while he was alive… This tremulous Rothko story line presents him as the Melancholy Martyr of Modernism, a deeply pessimistic presence whose painted fogs sag, paradoxically, with tons of heavyweight spirituality… His suicide topped it all off splendidly.

The decisions over where and whether to invest by oil market heavyweight Saudi Arabia, and also medium-sized producers such as Kuwait and the UAE, are important drivers of tomorrow's oil prices.

But in the end the spin has an anaesthetising effect – at least on the heavyweight end of BBC correspondents and editors.

Teaching coding to school students has won some pretty heavyweight supporters over the past couple of weeks.

Nancy Pelosi is praying for Hillary Clinton to run for the White House in 2016, the former House Speaker said on Friday in an early heavyweight endorsement for the recently retired secretary of state.

After giving Australia a nightmare draw for June, January's home-served fare looks much more inviting: two beatable teams and one heavyweight to provide some hype and headlines.

Klitschko's brother Vitali, who jointly held the heavyweight championship with Wladimir before vacating the WBC title upon his 2013 retirement, was elected mayor of Ukraine's capital Kiev last year.

Toby Jones and Anthony Hopkins are going head to head in duelling biopics of Hollywood's heaviest heavyweight, the master of suspense himself.

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