[ US /ˈɹaɪvəɫɹi/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪvə‍lɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of competing as for profit or a prize
    the teams were in fierce contention for first place
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How To Use rivalry In A Sentence

  • The new textbooks de-emphasize dynastic change, peasant struggle, ethnic rivalry and war, some critics say, because the leadership does not want people thinking that such things matter a great deal.
  • If the rivalry pwnage wasn't at tragic levels going into last year, it certainly is now.
  • It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
  • Rivalry is a groundswell word, suggesting turbulence by its very sound.
  • Football's most elemental rivalry was providing the defining classic of the genre.
  • This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description.
  • Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
  • Despite the rivalry, he insists he is still good muckers with Amis, who he thinks receives an inexplicably hostile press, and Barnes, who he says has been in hiding finishing a novel.
  • It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
  • Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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