Sentence examples for dating contest from inspiring English sources

He learned about the dating contest, but took it in stride.

Correction: November 26 , 2002 Tuesday A report in the Boldface Names column on Friday about the winner of "The Bachelor," a dating contest on ABC, misspelled her given name.

Not surprisingly, E! recently branched into the dating contest field with "Star Dates," in which two ordinary people compete for a date with a former star, from Phyllis Diller to Jill Whelan, a teenage actress in the 80's ("The Love Boat") who now makes jewelry.

"Joe Millionaire," the Fox dating show that worked both as a real dating contest and as a satire, seems to have inspired a subgenre.

Ms. Mendez felt lucky to have the chance to originate a role, though, and her touching performance in "Dogfight," based on the 1991 movie starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor, about some Marines' callous who-can-find-the-homeliest-date contest, has made plenty of theatergoers feel fortunate too.

"OK, these are not the girls I picked for the MTV date contest," Kendrick said.

That means that new marketing strategies such as giving away songs, streaming full albums before release dates, contests, etc. will need to be utilized to court a generation of former Napster users.

Four hundred of those points came from his victory at Esbru, tower racing's unofficial world championships, and its oldest contest, dating to 1978.

Buzkashi is a frenzied contest dating back to the days of Genghis Khan in which teams of horsemen fight for control of a goat or calf carcass.

Mr. Darnell's trademark style of freewheeling reality concepts include a dwarf-dating contest called "The Littlest Groom"; "Married by America," in which viewers voted on which strangers were paired up; and "Who's Your Daddy," about adults adopted at birth and made to guess which contestant was their biological father.

Also, no running back had gained more than 100 yards against Baltimore in 44 straight contests dating from 1997.