Sentence examples for contest growing from inspiring English sources

The more crowded Republican field was becoming more raucous, the more intimate Democratic contest growing a bit testier.

It was rare levity as the contest grew more intense.

The contest grew out of a question — "What is a flame?" — that the actor Alan Alda asked his teacher when he was 11.

The contest grew out of the 1934 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, aimed at reversing the drastic shrinkage of the nation's wetlands.

As the excitement of the Labour leadership contest grew over the summer, an old friend of Hilary Benn asked him why he was not standing for the leadership.

The Lions' defensive line was iron-clad, but the forwards found themselves with an increasing amount of work to do in the second quarter as a lively contest grew more physical.

As the non-Mitt Romney portion of the Republican nomination contest grows ever more bizarre and baroque, Jay Cost speaks the cold, hard truth: Many conservatives are frustrated by the prospect of a Romney nomination, but the reality is that Romney is the only remaining GOP candidate who has shown any facility with what Frank Kent once called "The Great Game of Politics".

It is not documented who had the better bull, but the contest grew into an annual event that has become a local custom.

The contests grew in importance for Mr. Gore as Democratic officials acknowledged he would probably not prevail in the hand counts.

The contests grew bitter; the police grew violent; the workers made common cause with one another; people started referring to Decatur as the "war zone".

While schools may use these numbers differently, from the outside, it often seems that the endowment returns competition is just a contest between growing empires.