Sentence examples for captivating contest from inspiring English sources

It will be a captivating contest, with tries rarer than rocking-horse manure.

The din from the Stade Vélodrome, when Germany were beaten in the most captivating contest of the tournament so far with even François Hollande unable to suppress his delight up in the stands, has pursued the team from the Bouches-du-Rhône back to Île-de-France.

Ever since NBC cut off the end of the 1968 Jets-Raiders football game in order to start the television movie "Heidi" on time, people who watch live television events have occasionally suffered emotional trauma over missing the end of a captivating contest.

Theirs was a captivating contest, even though neither player produced their best snooker.

Day one at the Etihad Stadium, attended by a total of 36,339 spectators, was rounded off by a captivating contest between the two teams that, between them, have held the Super League crown since 2007.

Tonight, in what will be one of the most captivating contests of the entire games, he will fight Ireland's John Joe Nevin, who defeated the world number one, Cuban Lazaro Jorge Alvarez Estrada, in a frenzied atmosphere in London's Docklands.

The second of FarmVille 2's captivating contests is the battle with friends.

Offer captivating deals, conduct contests and give discounts but whatever you do, keep it time bound, in order to raise the perceived value of your products/ services.

There was something captivating about that 77kg contest, especially for those viewers able to follow the cameras into the inner sanctum backstage, where the lifters pretended to ignore each other while secretly engaging in an advanced form of psychological poker.

The contest for "captivating and compelling" tales of firings and layoffs will be judged by Silicon Valley demicelebrities including Mark Jen, whom Google fired for blogging about the company, and Philip J. Kaplan, who runs a layoff-theme Web site whose name is a vulgarism for "failed company".

England, by losing five wickets in the afternoon session, ensured that a sparse crowd was captivated by a contest that had finally started to ebb and flow.