Sentence examples for contestant wins from inspiring English sources

For each round in which the panelists fail to come up with the correct answer the contestant wins a prize.

A typical episode of "Millionaire" costs an estimated $750,000 (unless, of course, a contestant wins $1 million).

When a contestant wins a prize — a dollar, a bag of Claire ClaireshapEichnery Claires — Eichner jumps up and down, hollering with glee.

Or when a nation watches a TV talent show, from Opportunity Knocks to X Factor (I apologise for even mentioning the latter), and the less talented contestant wins?

9 P.M. (NBC) LAST COMIC STANDING The Top 10 comics pair up to see who can endure the most heckling; one contestant wins a spot in the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.

Turning such an event — whereby the longest standing contestant wins a new truck — into a musical surely represented a challenge to the creative team, but the ambitious adapting task is what has some of us eager to see the Broadway bow of "Hands on a Hardbody".

And what will the contestant win besides Mr. Jenner as his confidant?

I was watching Deal or No Deal on YouTube recently and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000.

The judges may not have held up scorecards or voted anyone off, and no contestant won at the end of the show, but the dynamic was pretty similar.

Despite having no contestant win the $1 million grand prize in two and a half years of production, "Deal or No Deal' is an unqualified success.

The rubric demands that only by gaining fifty per cent of the votes can a contestant win in the first round; otherwise, further rounds will ensue, with the weaker candidates dropping gradually away.