Sentence examples for began contests from inspiring English sources

By early afternoon, the racers were back at the wharf, where they received their awards and began contests to see who could haul traps, put in new bait and set them again the fastest.

As the American troop surge peaked over the past two years, Taliban insurgents began contesting parts of this central province, flowing in from more embattled areas of the country.

But it wasn't until the No. 3-seeded Bears were down by 19-7 they they finally awoke and began contesting shots with fury.

GREG BISHOP BAYLOR 68, S. DAKOTA ST. 60 Third-seeded Baylor trailed South Dakota State by 19-7 before it finally began contesting shots with fury.

When local parents began contesting a grading system that many thought too harsh, Mr. Hartranft, who retired seven years ago at 55, found himself with time and analytical skills to contribute.

During this period, an increasingly powerful bourgeoisie began "contesting many of the hereditary privileges of the aristocracy" and arrogating to itself the nobility's onetime "monopoly over style, beauty, fashion, luxury and even fame".

That's generally blamed on the toxic environment that envelops many races these days, from beginning contests at the school board level to the presidential level.

With my mother's help, I began entering contests — anti-littering-poster contests, poetry and essay contests, athletic contests, drawing and even coloring contests — and I won a surprising number of them.

In 2008, she began a contest, "Make the World Write", where the contestants wrote about how they would make the world a better place.

They began to contest them.

Jeremy Corbyn began this contest as beyond rank outsider.