Sentence examples for contest it by from inspiring English sources

"I was just trying to contest it by getting a hand in his face, and I was lucky to get a finger on it and block the shot".

Jim correctly identified all four scary stories in this week's contest: "It," by Steven King; "Ghost Story," by Peter Straub; "The Haunting of Hill House," by Shirley Jackson; and "Dracula," by Bram Stoker.

Instead of latching on to the fear or panic because it's in your head, contest it by reframing the irrational story to what's actually the reality.

If you park illegally and get a citation, contesting it by arguing that you didn't see the "No Parking" sign will get you nowhere.

Instead of simply 'internalizing' the local knowledge and how it is manifested in a routine she contests it by 'speaking out'.

The green's name was chosen in a contest; it was submitted by two contestants, Harry Charalambides and James Stark.

In February 2014 it was announced that Elijah King and his track "Vida" had won the contest; it was chosen by Martin, a judging panel, and by public vote.

Artists Collective, a two-year-old medical marijuana service in Los Angeles formed with the idea of directing a large share of its income to the creative world, gave away its first chunk of money in August, to the winner of a national short-story contest it sponsored, judged by the novelist Neal Pollack.

And a lively literary contest it was, nimbly emceed by the ironically tuxedoed and erudite author Tim W. Brown.

In terms of investment in Africa, though, China lags behind Britain, America and Italy (see charts).If Chinese businessmen seem unfazed by the contest it is in part because they themselves are looking beyond the continent.

The song won over Turkey's entry "We Could Be the Same" with a margin of 76 points, at that time the second-biggest in Eurovision history, second only to Alexander Rybak's margin of 169 points in the 2009 contest (it would later be beaten by Loreen's victory in 2012, sporting a margin of 113 points).