Sentence examples for contest a line from inspiring English sources

The author admits to "feelings of dread and, yes, envy, when I see books being routed by electronics in the sexiness contest," a line that explains so many of the sentences here.

A few times Melzer and Petzschner were about ready to contest a line call — once they actually did — only to change their minds after the Bryans shook their heads as if to say, don't bother wasting a challenge on that.

Burt – check your email and spam box and drop us a line @ contest at crunchgear dot com.

The other events included a head-to-head shoving contest for tugboats and a line-throwing competition for crew members, involving casting heavy nautical lines 12 feet or so.

The two teams meet again in today's National Football Conference title game, and this time it is not just a regular-season contest on the line, but a trip to the Super Bowl.

"You're caller No. 2, sorry, try again," Mr. Filiar, known on the air as Little Ricci, told a listener on the station's contest phone line.

There are a number of ways in which one might contest this line of argument (Fine 2010; Wellman and Cole 2011).

Set in a country-house hotel, where a motivational selling course is taking place, the film follows the complicated lives of a cast of crooks, conmen and casualties as they contest the line between ambition and amorality.

Imagine a contest along the lines just sketched between a union-backed Brown and, say, John Reid, and you get the general idea.

And over the next 25 minutes, five more Volvo 60's competing on Leg 3 of the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race arrived in Hobart to cap off the closest contest for line honors in the Sydney-Hobart's rich history.

Corresponding to the two central premises, there are two ways to contest this line of reasoning.