Sentence examples for started a contest from inspiring English sources

It recently started a contest where people can custom-design the classic 1460 boot online (www.dmbootdesign.com).

He has called his new missiles "invincible," as some can evade missile defenses, and started a contest to name them.

After the book's first sentence leaked in New York magazine, The Village Voice started a contest to come up with the best final sentence.

So we started a contest for scientists: Tell us what a flame is in a way that an 11-year-old can understand.

The company behind the project, Canadian American Transportation Systems, started a contest asking the public to come up with a name for its $42.5 million vessel.

Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, said that she started a contest of her own, promising the employee who guesses the correct "controversial figure" a six-pack of beer or bottle of wine.

In Europe, the show "Pop Stars" which winnows a group of girl contestants down until they form a new singing group, is suing a prospective show called "Pop Idol," which wants to start a contest to winnow contestants down to a single new male singing star.

Why not start a contest among the schoolchildren the fellows work with to come up with a substitute?

The rain relented temporarily to allow William Porterfield's team to start a contest already reduced to 12 overs per side.

But little comes easily to the founding nation of competitive soccer these days, least of all when it starts a contest as heavy favorite.

The Sunlight Foundation, an independent watchdog group, is already starting a contest to invent Web applications that capitalize on Data.gov's offerings.