Sentence examples for famous contest from inspiring English sources

Williams had missed the Melbourne Cup through suspension and was skulking in the dark of a movie theatre when his country's most famous contest was run.

"The home nations already represent themselves as independent footballing nations and I think the reinventing of this famous contest as a regular fixture is to be welcomed.

Indeed, the most famous contest in baseball history, the playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants for the 1951 National League pennant, might well have turned on the Giants' untoward system of sign-stealing that involved a telescope and an electric buzzer.

Kobayashi emerged on the competitive eating circuit a decade ago, winning six straight Nathan's Famous contests and earning a reputation as unbeatable.

Back in 1954 for instance, there waas the "Favorite Delicatessen Sandwitches of Famous Stars"contest.

The waves at Mavericks are sometimes as high as 40 feet, and it's home to a famous surf contest.

The New Yorker, December 8, 1928 P. 21 The Waldorf held a Famous Pets contest last Sunday.

After 85 years, the nation's most famous beauty contest (sorry, I meant to say "scholarship pageant") has moved to Las Vegas.

He copied this scroll painting, modeled his own style after it, and used it to back his claim in the famous legal contest with Hasegawa Tōhaku over succession to the line of Sesshū.

The titular hero has helped the cantons of Switzerland rise up against Hapsburg oppression and, in the process, won the famous archery contest involving an apple balanced on his son's head.

Prince Of Penzance, at  100-1 the joint longest-priced winner of Australia's most famous sporting contest, was no friend to punters as the six-year-old gamely held off the strong late challenge of Willie Mullins' much-fancied Max Dynamite and Frankie Dettori.