Sentence examples for a contest at all from inspiring English sources

Not a contest at all.

The modern police drama has revolved around a conflict between domestic fealty and professional obligation that never presents much of a contest at all.

Justine Greening, the international development secretary, suggested the party should avoid a contest at all and anoint a Johnson/May joint ticket, in either order.

The managers had posed for photos together – coach Sergio González had insisted on doing so, despite opposition from his board – and it was on the front of the Catalan papers on Saturday morning but few expected a close contest or even a contest at all; the reality spoke of 17 points and €450m separating them.

Barkley converted and, from nowhere, we had a contest at 24-21.

Cricket has been played internationally for 165 years and was once a contest at the Olympics.

They lament that their friends are letting the environmentalists get to them, and predict that a shark contest without a winning carcass on the dock will not be viewed as a shark contest at all by the hundreds who still come for them.

Indeed, if you were to peruse their respective performances at Saracens last month – Wasps putting 60 on the league leaders, Gloucester going down meekly against a team reduced to 14 for an hour – you would not expect much of a contest here at all, with or without the invigorating influence of the Shed.

IT HAS been the nastiest and oddest campaign in the living memory of most Italians, perhaps because it has not felt like a general-election contest at all, more like a referendum.

In celebrity culture the contest between a star and a technocrat is no contest at all.

A Ben Zobrist double, a Lorenzo Cain single, a Hosmer sac fly and a Moustakas single tied the contest at 3-all, a reset to open the seventh.