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How to use contest in a sentence

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Chalabi bowed out of the contest in the second round, giving al-Abadi an easy victory.
Last spring, Ellie Claxton, a 19-year-old freshman at auburn University, entered a contest.
As a result, her biggest strength, even some Republicans here concede, is her ability to nationalize the contest at every turn.
So there were some anomalies about this contest that Democrats should be aware of.
Most politicians would be satisfied with finishing second to Rand Paul in beauty contest notoriously dominated by libertarians.
In each contest, the Republican candidate outperformed the GOP result from 2012 among women voters.
But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned men not only do not notice it for themselves, but they contest every exposure of the harm and stupidity of patriotism with the greatest obstinacy and ardour, though without any rational grounds; and they continue to belaud it as beneficent and elevating.
His dog won an award in the fashion contest at the annual dog-day festival.
They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.
With the regicide of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations.
Even though as many as fourteen claimants put forward their claims to the title, the real contest was between John Balliol and Robert de Brus.
Now he insisted that, if he were to settle the contest, he had to be fully recognised as Scotland's feudal overlord.
While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.
The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.
The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.
Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
Mark Sherwood, the caddie for Fredrik Jacobson, led for much of the contest after hitting an 8-iron a little low on the clubface.
In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.
The situation envisioned is the contest for a prize described in Herodotus 8.123 and cast in the form of ethopoeia.
These successes convinced republicans that they should contest every election.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The whole history of this calligraphic contest, written by Bale himself, is preserved amongst the Harl.
Messrs Paul and Kingzett contest the accuracy of these deductions, and dispute the correctness of the formula given to aconitine.
On reaching the open water, they quitted this order, and engaged in a friendly contest of speed as far as Aegina.
In the unequal contest the antiforeign influences soon gained the ascendancy under the leadership of Prince Tuan.
There was a musical contest in Sicily, and Arion longed to compete for the prize.
But when Atalanta stood ready for the contest, he was amazed by her beauty.
She never will forgive that moon-eyed Miss Dean for putting it over her at the beauty contest.
The others began chorusing their congratulations at once, looking no more convincing than the runners-up in any beauty contest.
And now how did it behove an ardent missionary to act in such a contest with a subtle Egyptian?
In the Kaiser prize contest for aviation motors a four-cylinder Benz motor of 130 by 180 mm.
Gasping for breath, he held out his hand and received a huge plug of tobacco, for bigfoot had won a contest.
Then had followed a magnificent contest between the Rev. Athelstan and the boarhound.
Down the hill they thundered, over the brook and up to the scene of the contest.
Not that I think it at all likely there can be any contest about what Mr. Brownson has.
The beauty contest was an awful damper to them, especially Miss Weyman.
In the American League also a spirited contest was going on.
She made us promise not to tell it right after the beauty contest.
Antinous refers to it and proposes to defer the contest on that account.
Forty-one rounds were fought, and the contest ended in favour of Belasco.
The peace of Breda terminated for a time the contest with the Dutch.
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