Sentence examples for are challengers from inspiring English sources
noun
One who challenges.
- One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
He knows there are challengers to his extended dominance.
On any conventional reckoning, the Lib Dems are challengers in just eight of Labour's 50 most marginal seats.
Third-party candidates are not included, and the maps do not differentiate among candidates who are challengers, incumbents, or running for open seats.
There are challengers, too, and it's quite a cast: a Serbian with quotes from Nietzsche tattooed on his arm, a 6'9" American, an excitable Frenchman capable of the game's greatest athletic feats and its most boneheaded plays — on the same point.
Free-agent acquisitions, coaching changes, contract negotiations, off-field drama — only the current Jets and Favre-infected Vikings are challengers anymore, and neither of them can tell the tale of Albert Haynesworth's gargantuan signing-bonus payment, followed by his fitness-test failures.
Defenders of the status quo are called incumbents, and those engaged in conflict with them are challengers.
Mourinho insisted once Chelsea have that man, they will be challengers, despite complying with Financial Fair Play.
Do you think this Hull side can be challengers for silverware for years to come?
The deepest underwater location is Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of 10,911.4 m.
"There are no challengers," Mr. Lazaro said.
They are clearly challengers for the title in Rio.
