Sentence examples for solid contender from inspiring English sources

Tiramisù, that great comfort sweet, was a solid contender, as was a sweet ricotta cheesecake.

Martin, 52, is often overshadowed by his Hendrick Motorsports teammates, but he is still considered a solid contender.

Sure, Nixon is a solid contender, but Bill Clinton, a man with big appetites and a distinctive accent, has given joke tellers a wealth of material.

Overall, the ZenWatch is easily one of the best Android Wear watches available and a solid contender for the incoming Apple Watch.

He was a solid contender in the United States Open from 1962 through 1973, finishing in the top 10 five times.

Folks that remember the dismal Saints of the past are still getting used to the notion that this looks like a solid contender.

Numerous Times, Val Royal and Irish Prize, three solid contenders, drew the three outside posts.

My carrot and cucumber plants have held up better than most of their neighbors, which made them solid contenders to start the competition.

"There is no clear-cut answer to the value of investing in ethical funds but some funds have certainly shown themselves as solid contenders," says Muna Abu-Habsa, fund analyst at Morningstar.

On the House side, women are solid contenders in at least 6 of the 20 or so top races, among them the contest in Pennsylvania's Fourth Congressional District as well as contests in California, Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and West Virginia.

A year before the primaries, the Democrats certainly have solid contenders for the Presidency, each of whom — some more than others — is struggling to design a credible series of foreign-policy beliefs for a party that has foreign-policy inclinations but no reigning philosophy.