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"Contest" in a Sentence (18 examples)
It is probable that he will win the speech contest.
I would often take part in an English speech contest in my school days.
Are you going to take part in the English speech contest?
To everyone's astonishment, Mike won first prize in the speech contest.
We will have a music contest soon.
Never did I dream that I would take first place in the piano contest.
At first he did not realize that he had won the speech contest.
Nancy was surprised that Bob won the first prize in the contest.
The weak boy was eliminated from the bitter contest.
His misspelling of that word eliminated him from the contest.
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The child entered the spelling contest.
I will contest for the open seat on the board.
Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth As for the difficulty or obscurity of an argument, that does but add to the pleasure.of contesting with it when there are hopes of victory
The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.
Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.
On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
The troops contested every inch of ground.
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