Sentence examples for actual contests from inspiring English sources

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.

As for the actual contests: The difference between Japanese and American title bouts is officiousness a condescending display that betrays the nature of the game.

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.

Or it may go ahead – but more "smoothly", given that there will be no actual contest.

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.