Sentence examples for compete unsuccessfully from inspiring English sources
The phrase "compete unsuccessfully" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when describing a situation where someone or something has participated in a competition but did not achieve victory. Example: "Despite their best efforts, the team had to accept that they would compete unsuccessfully against the reigning champions."
Noteworthy's sendup of her "Poker Face," complete with wacky dance moves, garnered more than three million views on YouTube in 10 months as well as an invitation to compete (unsuccessfully) on "America's Got Talent" last summer.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the native European glazed terracotta, tin-glazed earthenware and majolica had to compete unsuccessfully with imports of hard paste (pate dure) porcelains from China; the latter had a beautiful translucency, were thinly potted and possessed a white, smooth surface which readily exhibited applied decoration to the maximum effect.
The Hittites were thus left to compete unsuccessfully with the powerful Assyrians and the newly arrived Phrygians.
Both firms competed unsuccessfully in 1997 to design the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art.
One of them competed unsuccessfully for a stake in Air Canada against Cerberus Capital, a big hedge-fund firm.
For a short time Schopenhauer competed unsuccessfully with Hegel at the University of Berlin; thereafter he withdrew to spend the rest of his life in battle against academic philosophy.
He had competed unsuccessfully for more than two decades, but this time the incumbent, Abdou Diouf, failed to gain a majority in the initial voting.
His keyboard player Anson -- an actor, Jed Rees, not a real member of Silvertone -- finds himself competing (unsuccessfully) with a horse for a woman's affections.
And as black-and-white e-readers gave way to multifunctional color tablets, Barnes & Noble found itself competing unsuccessfully against companies many times its size, like Amazon and Apple, that have had technology in their DNA from the start.
Deborah Polaski sang the stepmother, and, though she supplied her usual glowering intensity, she competed unsuccessfully with my vivid memories of Anja Silja, who sang this role with ferocious psychological specificity at the Deutsche Oper, in Berlin, last year.
Richardson, 61, who competed unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, becomes the first political casualty in Obama's Cabinet, and his withdrawal marked the first visible crack in what had been one of the smoothest presidential transitions in modern history.
