Sentence examples for speech contest from inspiring English sources

At age 12, Amy won first prize in a county-wide speech contest.

She was participating in a speech contest in a fancy downtown building in a booming city.

In seventh grade, she won a speech contest by reciting the Gettysburg Address.

As a prize in a debate, he once won a trip to a speech contest in Kentucky presided over by William Jennings Bryan.

When he was seventeen, he tells us from behind a desk, he entered a speech contest in Michigan that used Abraham Lincoln as a prompt.

As a teenager in 1962, he scored at the top of an English-language speech contest in South Korea, winning him a trip to the White House to meet President Kennedy.

But, instead of expounding on Castro, he competed against other teen-agers in speech contests; the contestants delivered twenty minutes of memorized remarks about free-market economics.

The local government has held Mandarin speech contests the past two years.

Back in Houston for high school, he entered speech contests run by the Free Enterprise Institute.

His interest in sports shifted to announcing after he was stricken with polio, and he began preparing himself in high school by entering speech contests.

The Wodehouse Society ran mimicry and comic speech contests and organised the annual Lord Ickenham Memorial Practical Joke Week, the bane of all at college who took themselves too seriously.