Sentence examples for be at a contest from inspiring English sources

But tell him also that 33,000 people from each of these two cities — Swansea on the Welsh south coast and Bradford in England's industrial north — traveled from dawn to be at a contest that, truly, does not happen every year.

Cinderella says the Regular Johnny Depp is at a bikini contest in Beverly Hills.

According to Deadspin, in December Swaney cleverly attended a halfpipe event in China when more serious competitors were at a different contest in Colorado.

The battle for Gardez and the rest of Paktia Province is at root a contest for power and money.

So if you are "at a welly-wanging contest held in Scotland by your pal Seamus" you could try: "This is my first welly-wanging contest.

Balances are sustained; pirouettes are always in many multiples; overhead lifts are held as if we were at a weight-lifting contest with our stopwatches.

I dunked it in butter and shoved it in my mouth like I was at a pie-eating contest.

Perhaps not surprisingly, chances were at a premium throughout the contest, particularly during an atrocious first half during which neither side appeared to have the invention to open up their opponents.

The band's first performance was at a high school talent contest (playing a Merle Haggard song), for which they won first prize and tickets to the Grand Ole Opry.

The problems have prevented Harf from taking Coty public as a separate company, and since it competes with large and profitable companies such as L'Oral and others, it is at a disadvantage in bidding contests.

But chances were at a premium in an even contest, with Marks coming closest to adding to the home side's tally.