Sentence examples for I vied for from inspiring English sources

Emma had greeted my arrival in her father's life with steely disapproval and, from then on, she and I vied for his attention like competing mistresses.

When the two were barely teenagers, we had moved to Oregon in the wake of a divorce that had flattened them more than I could have seen back then: their father and I vied for our children's loyalties until the girls were spun into confusion and grief, until they were left raw and open to all the wrong kinds of rebellion.

So six other candidates, all men, and I vied for this seat.

I actually vied for the role!

I always vied for the top selling awards.

Naturally, I vied with other interns for a full-time reporting job.

Stephen and I vied in self-sacrifice for the lesser covering, and I won with quicker hands.

"That was a job I was vying for back when I was an assistant at Maryland.

Once, communities vied for I-40 off-ramps, aware that being bypassed would bury them.

On the 6 Train platform following the last song (I think an encore might have happened, but as previously mentioned, I'm vying for a membership with TOC [The Old Club, please keep up] so I left at the hard set end), I ran into two serious Kraftwerk junkies and asked what they thought of the show.

Is she vying for another SNL hosting gig?