How To Use Contest In A Sentence

He comes from nowhere to win this contest and immediately is able to grasp a lot of the intricacies of the moviemaking process.
After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.
The winners of these two encounters will contest the final from 7pm. Times, Sunday Times
He decided not to contest the retrospective charge. Times, Sunday Times

Mitch: My buddy just won belching contest.
The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.
And the Bridal Show, for married women, seemed to do just that by focusing on the Indianess of contestants who were draped in variety of colourful sarees and mesmerizing gagra cholis that dazzled with every step.
Once the war began, uniformed Americans participated in an inter-service contest for buckjumping and bareback riding at Wirth's Circus, Melbourne, in early 1943.
After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero. Times, Sunday Times
This column will doubtless attract accusations of self-indulgence, although you might equally contest that having demanded that my photograph appear at the top of the page and that my name appear in capitals and bold type, that particular ship has sailed. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The contestants are eliminated one by one until the last two compete in a head-to-head contest.
What is uncontestable is that he is an honest player and, in the present climate, he accepts that is crucial. Times, Sunday Times
In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools.
Tickets for other Amalgamation matches should soon be available and it is hoped that more extensive advertising and a reduced number of contests at favoured venues will see a reverse in the dwindling attendances.
It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Nobody can take part in the traditional European contest for possession after the tackle if his nose is more than 6in off the ground.
The couple met on the show last autumn when the former equerry to the Duke of York ended up choosing presenter Jonsson over the contestants.
I start to hit the word ready on my board, but I decide to concentrate on the contest instead. Out of my mind
The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems.
Indeed, most of the old crooks have been allowed to contest the election.
A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
In a typical game of badminton, contestants expend as much energy as in running a mile; singles games give the most vigorous aerobic workout. Times, Sunday Times
The two candidates then contest the general election.
Once there, she catches the eye of her boss's son and puts her skills to good use in a snowboarding contest. The Sun
Given the background music, the contestants have to identify the song and sing it.
In real life, your selectiveness is a plus for your team, but it's keeping you out of this contest. SI.com
This is a fact the significance of which cannot escape anyone, and one which incontestably marks an epoch from the point of view of chemists. Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
Being in critique croups and entering contests and getting rejections often makes me doubt my writing. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » New Year’s Resolutions
She admits that standing in the party 's primary contest would upset many members. Times, Sunday Times
Had Diego Milito's goal in the first leg been correctly ruled out for being sixty-miles offside, or had Barça's totally valid goal not been shambolically dismissed, then Barcelona would have contested the final in Madrid. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
It is also the outcome of the calculated political manipulation of the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
Contesting articulations of musical practices could as a rule now arise only at the level of consumption.
His essay ‘Our America’ sought to contest the cultural and linguistic destiny of America as a signifier.
Democrats ran candidates in every subcircuit seat, and won most of those they contested. ILLINOIZE
The double punishment was harsh and killed the game as a contest. The Sun
Atlantic City provides the setting for the story of two brothers who enter the biggest mixed martial arts contest in history. The Sun
So that deciding contestable moral questions by reference to what any particular person would think about them loses its validity.
It appears that it will be a quite convention with none of the top positions been contested.
I also increased the fighting time of losers of contests relative to winners of contests.
It was a large empty caravan plot that was used for contests. Times, Sunday Times
It left Tadcaster a mountain to climb after the interval but to their credit they tried to make a contest of it and did well to concede only one more in the last 35 minutes.
In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
The Lao-Nong River has some challenging rapids that will put Ironman contestants to the test next week.
The concept of validity has been contested and is subject to further refinement.
Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: "there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark. Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log
Brunelleschi won the contest in 1420 with a proposal to erect the dome without wooden centering.
It will be a contest within the contest that is worth the money alone. Times, Sunday Times
His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
The real appeal of these contestants is their unchanging nature. Times, Sunday Times
The contestants are drawn from a cross section of society.
The group stage, the most hotly contested part of the negotiations, was once again rather thin in terms of surprises. Times, Sunday Times
The apartment block in which the contestants live looks utterly out of keeping with straitened times. Times, Sunday Times
This presidential race was no contest: John McCain sped to the finish while Barack Obama was reluctant to leave the starting point. Two cockroaches race to u.s. presidency
Directors have turned the traditional good versus evil contest into the screen classics.
It is still the case that there is no alternative, no political contestation about the future of society. Times, Sunday Times
The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest.
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
She's won a lot of beauty contests.
These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
It is a show but not a contest, and, thankfully, the beauty of sport comes predominantly from the contest.
Contestants risk all on a series of timed runs down a challenging cross-country course, made more treacherous by artificial jumps and obstacles. Times, Sunday Times
It will be one of the most tightly fought political contests in North Kerry since the May general election but this time it s not about votes but appetite.
In the second of these interregna a contest arose because two patrician consuls were elected. The History of Rome, Vol. II
Most contestants abstain after the expert has been successfully called upon unless they are absolutely certain they have the correct answer. Times, Sunday Times
The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje. Rainbow’s End
The game was played in dreadful conditions with driving rain and howling winds ruining the contest.
It was always obvious that Brown, whose coronation is secure, would contest the middle ground, and this must mean revisiting welfare reform Archive 2007-03-04
It had been a large contest of fighters from all over to see who truly was the greatest fighter.
By staging the fish, previously scored for boldness, in dyadic contests against siblings, we also tested the prediction that bolder individuals are more likely to become dominant.
She offers sensible advice to the contestants and is a breath of fresh air. The Sun
Your former employer has to reply within 14 days in order to contest the case.
Her sacrifice & committment is to herself when she left Alaskans for the glory of being VP without a Lt. Governor and then leaving her elected seat to make money and do her beauty contestant walk & turns. Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour
Others argue that the workshop was only carried out to increase municipal authority over contested forest areas, and the resulting municipal policy failed to reflect the needs of families who require fuelwood for subsistence.
As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.
SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate
The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
In the light of this provision, we do not accept that H has grounds for contesting the element of indecency in his conviction.
It should be diverting parents away from contested hearings into the making of parenting plans. Times, Sunday Times
This was as fiercely contested a match as any international could be. The Sun
They do a good job defensively of matching up again with their zone, contesting us when we're driving in the paint against the seven-footers.
We have indeed reached some significant milestones around here of late, and it's high time we celebrated with a flagon of ale, a buxom wench or two, and our very first CONTEST on CROM! Archive 2010-03-01
What's fascinating is that the contest could have only happened through top down means, but enabled bottom-up participation.
The garnet and blue clad hoopsters competed in four exhibition contests that season, winning each by a comfortable margin.
They also want to recruit an all-star contestant line-up. The Sun
Your ability to stay calm and focused will help you shine in a contest. The Sun
I am the arena of their power contest.
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Ben Wyvis, for instance, is unlikely to win any prizes in a contest against some of the more shapely Highland summits.
There's such a collegial atmosphere among the contestants.
Of course we can contest this kind of sexism by arguing about the accuracy of particular scientific findings.
His goal signalled the end of the game as a contest. Times, Sunday Times
I even won prizes in the school's Annual Athletic Contest in my freshman year.
It is a contest being fought by e-mail, direct mail and telephone, alongside the traditional door knock.
The contest between Balshaw and Ben Cohen on Northampton's left wing had been much anticipated.
If this had been a boxing match the ref would have stopped the contest a good 15 minutes before time.
Throughout, the metaphor of brother against brother is a kind of metonymy for civil butchery in which family members slaughter one another in a grim contest of reciprocity. Shakespeare
With the news that Australia's leading wicket taker Shane Warne will be fit for the match, the game promises to be an evenly fought contest.
Likewise, we've endured the ever-dreaded swimsuit competition and the nerve-racking interview segment, in which at least one contestant routinely flops.
Until recently, public life was based on the contest between left and right - between different visions of guaranteeing social advancement for all.
And as she showed off her new slimline figure in leggings she said the panel must know contestants can cope with blistering comments. The Sun
Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
Eight out of the nineteen events were contests.
The ConnectU founders fought right to the end, settling the dispute in mediation, then contesting the settlement and battling with the lawyers who had represented them in the talks. Judge Ends Facebook’s Feud With ConnectU - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
a close contest
The contest has become personalised, if not bitter.
I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
According to reports, choosing a winner from the final three contestants was a hard task.
Navratilova, whose world singles ranking is 700, admitted it had been a uneven contest.
After the schlepp and slog of it all, contestants would find out if they'd won after the first quarter of the super bowl; an announcement which would involve no words, only the music to the winner's song played -- to 90 million people. Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis
Contestants come from all over the country, from many and varied backgrounds.
In the proceedings before the Full Court, he made it clear that the applicant did not contest the order for sequestration of his estate.
Whitman prepares next enter into an election contest with republic partisans identity California bey.
What we need is a gladiatorial contest between the representative champions of each political party.
But pitiless producers are defying her wishes and are plying contestants with beer and wine. The Sun
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But education has always been about more than a classic contest between federal and local government power.
If only the contest could be decided this way and not in court. Times, Sunday Times
A full slate of activities also is planned, including butter churning, ice cream making and ice cream eating contests.
I won first place in the English Oratorical Contest of our university.
At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain.
As a democrat I don't believe that any election should go uncontested but there is an argument to be put forward in this case.
We call it an honour to our collective that Mather got the first prize in the composition contest.
Reproduced are paintings, which won the top prizes in a contest organised by a Malayalam daily.
She is one of the front-runners in the contest.
The real contest, champions v pretenders, begins. Times, Sunday Times
The youngest contestant chooses which prizes the family wins. The Sun
A contestant from Taiwan lifted 112 kilograms to take the lead in the clean-and-jerk round. A Golden Olympics, According to Beijing
In terms of "Name the _____" polling and voting contests, the fact that the poll/voting may or may not have a full influence on the naming is the norm. Gerst Does Colbert Report (With Video) - NASA Watch
I feel sorry for the poor contestants auditioning today. The Sun
Officially, the contest was open to anyone with the requisite nomination from a trade union or local party branch. Times, Sunday Times
Space races, in any case, have form as proxy contests between superpowers. Times, Sunday Times
It was a contest that had become a no-contest, a head-to-head in which one team was head and shoulders above the other.
The welfare of our contestants is always of the utmost importance to us. The Sun
“Survivor: China” contestant Denise Martin claimed on the reunion show that she was demoted from a lunch lady to a janitor because of her involvement on the reality series. Survivor China Lunch Lady Denise Martin on The Early Show
Knowledge is particular and perspectival, and as such is always contestable.
The 40-year-old has come a long way from the political greenhorn that he was when he contested his first general election without a poster campaign.
He said that in the run up to the political contest elements of the extreme right would re-emerge in Oldham looking to exploit divisions for political gain.
Jackson has injured his knee and is now out of the contest.
Creating a more sustainable future starts with today's tots, which is why Inhabitots is currently running an adorable Eco-Cutey contest to show off the cutest kids that give a hoot about the environment! INHABITAT
In the animal kingdom intruders usually lose contests over territories.
The fact of the matter was that her brain was reeling about, punch-drunk after the twelve-round contest of this interminable day. LAST SHOT
Conversations may be in whispers or, often, in demented shouting contests.
He is a bigwig and has many contacts, as I discovered when I tried to get a lawyer later to contest his dismissal.
He has as yet not had an opportunity to defend himself against the criminal charges nor to contest the dismissal in an academic proceeding.
The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
Beetles with tolerant larvae also have higher numbers of eggs on eclosion and reduced longevity compared to strains and species with contest competition.
Congratulations to Trista Gunderman, this month's caption contest winner. April – 2010 – The Windy City Rollers
Contestants dashed to close deals using fax machines in airless offices. Times, Sunday Times
It was more like an open day and contestants get a lift from that. The Sun
Meanwhile, the only thing I like about watching the show is snarking about the contestants.
The junior girls' basketball team, with Amelia watching over them, came out first in their local contest.
Fearless, lawless and sowing misery with a careless abandon, their reign seems uncontested. Times, Sunday Times
Back in Puebla, head to the Casa de la Cultura to view the indigenous and modern altar-building contest entries and visit with the artists.
Soon enough, the cream will rise to the top and our elephantine popularity contest will have proven itself once again as both as defining and as completely irrelevant as freshman yearbook pictures.
During the final half-hour, it fizzled out as a contest, neither side able to break the deadlock.
The moon links luck and a contest to win a holiday. The Sun
His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power.
This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.
In recent years, a narrative has emerged of elections being contests between the educated and the knuckledraggers, the 'post-fact' loons. The Sun
But then Pandorama 'clouted' three out, surely knocking his confidence at a crucial stage of the contest. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
As a result, more than half of the 300 seats were uncontested. Times, Sunday Times
Cyclists contest a variety of events on an inside oval track banked at 42 degrees.
There is fear that division of the province will ultimately see a dramatic increase in the numbers of military personnel stationed in the contested territory.
The contest was too one-sided to be exciting.
When he discusses his participation in a roadgeek-sponsored map-reading contest, he confesses that he "wimped out halfway. Lost in a Good Atlas
If Olubamiwo allows O'Connell to make their contest a boxing match, it's unlikey he'll have the tools to compete with the Plymouth man but "The War Machine" didn't get such a sobriquet from trying to outslick adversaries in the ring. East Side Boxing
The contest sparked sectarian violence across the country. Christianity Today
You are ready and able to impress a panel in any contest. The Sun
HeyUGuys. com and E1 Home Entertainment have teamed up for a contest to give three lucky winners the chance to win a life-size cardboard standee of Bella, Jacob, or Edward. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR MARCH 15TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
While other contestants with three left feet were still in the show, your continuing success was funny. Times, Sunday Times
Returning to office uncontested, the President appears to see her mandate as continuing to work in the same vein as before.
Further up, I get into a singing contest with a pair of korimako. Half-pie
While in Hawaii for a surf contest, Frank and Joe's hotel room is robbed.
The contest disproved the general belief that the youngsters of today were more inclined towards western music than classical.
Of course we can contest this kind of sexism by arguing about the accuracy of particular scientific findings.
A fast buck Henry Rix 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest.
I was going to enter a belly-dancing contest, but I bottled out at the last minute.
TV chiefs are to hold a talent contest to find the best singing sailors, matelots, seamen and ship-hands in the country, and offer them a top music contract by way of a prize.
Waterford had several candidates for the highly contested positions and did very well to get three of these candidates elected.
I don't expect they will win any million dollar bake-off contests either.
He quests for a trophy to call his own, hoping the Kartoon King ice cream contest might gain him the conspicuous congratulations he so desperately requires.
[profane] lebron in a dunk contest with kryptonate and superman, and tha king is here to show who ye rule this land. but nooooooooooooooooooooo, he dropps out lame, all those damn fans are dissapointed. hey lamebron do it for the fans come out as silver surfer, spiderman, jay-z i dont care just do it! Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Even a dunderhead knows that fans swelter in summer's bleachers and bundle in December's cold out of a love for the contests, not for sociological or business deconstructions.
The Conservatives made two gains in council by-elections that the previous winning parties did not contest. Times, Sunday Times
The final of the league was hotly contested.
Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
He said at no time did he campaign for the position from any association and saw no need to get disappointed because he was just asked to contest the position.
And in the front, a group of students are having a rap contest as they make their beats by banging on the table.
In all libels for divorce where the cause alleged is adultery, and where the adverse party does not appear, or is defaulted, the person alleged to be particeps criminis with the libellee may, in the discretion of the court, be allowed to appear and contest the libel. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
He topped the contest on Horseshoe Lake with a cracking net of bream and skimmers scaling an impressive 77 lb 14 oz.
Entering a contest as a couple multiplies chances of success. The Sun
Thirteen nervous minutes into the contest Doran converted a free from 38 metres but Mulligan squared the match in the 16th minute after interplay between Smith and McGoldrick.
No one contests their falsehoods, inaccuracies, and sins of omission on a point by point basis.
My daughter's boyfriend enters bodybuilding competitions and he came to me recently for a massage and a tan before a big contest in Europe. The Sun

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