Sentence examples for gripping contest from inspiring English sources

Something about this rivalry, some intangible, makes for an inherently gripping contest.

The ball only just cleared the cross bar in the end, the final and decisive score in an utterly gripping contest.

It may not have been a great spectacle, but it was a gripping contest between two teams who had proved themselves incontestably the best in the game.

Watson led by a set and 5-4 and was serving for the match in Melbourne but world number 60 Babos came roaring back to win a gripping contest 6-7 (4/7) 7-5 7-5.

No doubt this cheers up Andrew Strauss, the architect of the new toss regulations in domestic cricket, rather more than the battery of toiling county bowlers and possibly more than spectators around the shires craving a gripping contest on the final day.

"Fair play to Somerset, it was an absolutely gripping contest - one-day cricket at its very best".

Both teams went on to win the World Series handily, neither series as gripping as the ALCS contests.

In the end, though, it is a straight contest between two gripping finales: Leicester's sun-dappled victory at the Parc des Princes and Leinster's extraordinary comeback against Northampton at the Millennium Stadium in 2011.

The film is perfectly paced, with just enough pre-games training and socio-political context stuff without it dragging, while the contest itself is gripping and with a pleasing gender role reversal in terms of the hunter and the damsel in distress.

It is the hope of the contest supporter, the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning program, that the contest draws out edgy, gripping 21st century gaming experiences that leverage the incredible popularity of games (one recent national survey indicated that 90% of U.S. teenagers have played video games) with the creative and highly engaging learning potential of games.

There is something almost grotesque in the contrast between the self-indulgence of the Conservative leadership contest and the anxiety gripping millions of families worried about the future.