Sentence examples for contest of wits from inspiring English sources
In oral literature the riddle may be part of a contest of wits.
"Hey," she replies, "do I come to your job and tell you how to drive?" PROBLEM: A king wants to hire a royal adviser, so he invites his kingdom's three wisest men to engage in a contest of wits.
These abilities are rare in the animal kingdom, although dolphins have them too, so on this test alone dogs don't best them in a contest of wits.
Texas A&M psychological scientist Darrell Worthy decided to test this in the laboratory, to actually pit 20-somethings against seniors in a head-to-head contest of wits.
Rather, they would need to turn the series into a contest of wits and skill.
It is, nonetheless, sport, a contest of wits and endurance: one adolescent speller v the entirety of the English language.
It will be a contest of intelligence, wit, and will.
THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY, by Geoff Dyer (Knopf).
Politics has become a contest of monomaniacs.
It's a contest of titans.
The race is a contest of contrasts.
