Sentence examples for contest rather than from inspiring English sources
Golf becomes just another sports contest, rather than a war of attrition.
Prince Ali then withdrew from the contest rather than force a second round.
"They're smart to run this as a contest rather than straight advertising," he said.
First, this is a national contest rather than a series of local contests.
It's a little like participating in a dunk contest rather than a full basketball game.
Mother and daughter ended up in a fun and connected balancing contest rather than a power struggle over dessert.
Games have always been popular, but in the last third of the 19th century they were organized into regular, recurring contests rather than occasional diversions.
If ball games were contests rather than noncompetitive ritual performances, such as the Japanese football game kemari, then they were sports in the most rigorously defined sense.
It takes one back to the age of the well-tailored play and a time when political conventions were contests, rather than coronations.
The race is decided by the electoral college, or a tally of wins from the state-by-state contests, rather than by the popular national vote.
