Sentence examples for actual contest from inspiring English sources

Is this an actual contest?

When competition begins, the actual contest often bears little resemblance to the talk that preceded it.

GRINNE: Still, we were hoping for an actual contest this time.

The scent of perfumed suds hangs heavily over "Bride Flight," a 130-minute fictionalized quasi-epic inspired by an actual contest known as the Last Great Air Race.

There's an opening ceremony on 1 December each year, but the actual contest has run just nine times in 31 years.

So as seven people were arrested during a protest at Mitt Romney's Iowa office on Wednesday afternoon, the organizers of the Occupy Iowa Caucus movement vowed not to disrupt the actual contest next week.

The actual contests are very serious affairs.

Why they keep wasting all that time with the actual contests is beyond me.

Although the Greeks used padded gloves for practice, not dissimilar from the modern boxing glove, these gloves had no role in actual contests.

"They'd go upstairs, they'd check their e-mails, and they said, 'I'm going to help the crowd out.' " The efficiency and teamwork of the cleanup effort did not extend to the actual contests.

In both, the actual contests are few, meaningful public information is sparse, and, as a consequence, their enduring popularity has less to do with any resolution than our fevered speculations along the way.