Sentence examples for contests come from inspiring English sources

| Revellers of a more bookish stripe are welcome at McNally Jackson Books' second annual Literary Halloween Party, which will feature horror-story and costume contests (come as your favorite author or literary hero), along with readings and refreshments.

Even if a low-budget candidate does well in Iowa and New Hampshire, he will have a difficult time raising the tens of millions of dollars needed to compete effectively in such large states, since those simultaneous contests come so soon after the first two.

I think Beck's win reminds us that these contests come down to voters' personal convictions.

We have a bunch of contests coming up in the coming weeks that are sure to turn heads and make you all swoon.

In California, some of the country's most-watched primary contests came to a close Monday.

Rousey's three contests coming into the bout lasted a total of 64 seconds.

As the contests came to an end, Mr. Kerry virtually had Michigan, and to a lesser extent, Washington State, to himself.

Sanders defended himself against the accusation that he was "blowing off South Carolina", noting that there were almost a dozen states with Democratic contests coming up on 1 March.

The last five have been decided by 7 points or fewer, with the game winning score in four of those contests coming after the two-minute warning.

Although it has played millions of games against itself, the data that it received on high-level human contests came from only a couple hundred thousand games.

Broner's only defeat in 31 professional contests came against Marcos Maidana, a man Khan beat on points in 2010.