Sentence examples for a contest match from inspiring English sources

This is not even a contest, match, race, or whatever you may like to call it.

There have already been plenty of fascinating comings-together at this World Cup. Louis versus Lionel could end up being a contest to match the best of them.

Great line-ups do not always equal great football, as at least six of the last seven World Cup finals demonstrate; not since Argentina beat West Germany 3-2 in 1986  has there been a contest to match the occasion.

Notwithstanding the fact that there is no winner in such a contest, the match is still considered to be a showpiece of the game, and one of he most exciting games ever played.

Photograph: Jonathan Brady/EPA 12.54pm BST A multiple exposure picture shows Brazil's Tiago Camilo (white) competing with Ukraine's Roman Gontiuk (blue) during their men's -90kg judo contest match.

Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/GettyImages 12.05pm BST Slovenia's Lucija Polavder (white) looks to be coming off worse against Britain's Karina Bryant (blue) during their women's +78kg judo contest match.

Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP 9.53am BST More body art, hair this time: France's Teddy Riner during his +100kg judo contest match at the ExCel arenathis morning.

I don't care," said Simon, pointing to the fact that women contest matches over best-of-three setheat the Grand Slam tournaments while the men play best-of-five set matches.

BBC WM's Clive Eakin: "Warwickshire will take some credit for making a contest of a match which had looked decided at the halfway stage.

The "Footloose" star launched with a contest that offered matching grants to the six charities that raised the most money.

Lacking experimental evidence, can we assume that patterns of male-female contests match those of intrasexual encounters?