Sentence examples for supposed rival from inspiring English sources

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But when he opens his closet and finds hangars full of Nike — clothes his supposed rival, Tiger Woods, popularized — maybe he sees a costume, and an ill-fitting one at that.

Harry Hepple, as a white hoodie, whips out a machete and straddles his supposed rival while delivering a dogged serenade about his own loser life, which hinges on wearing the wrong trainers when he went to cash his giro.

Lycett tells the story of how, when she suspected Thomas of flirting with a woman at a party, "she came up behind her supposed rival and, without saying a word, stubbed her cigarette down hard on the back of [her] hand.

What lingers in the mind is a series of desperate images: Edmunds trying to force a poisoned sweet into the mouth of her supposed rival in love; Bière lurking in the shadows, watching her lover with revolver loaded and ready; Stanford White lying in the rooftop garden he had designed with half his face blown away.

He is perfectly partnered by Flora Montgomery, who lends Hannah, a supposed rival, both a wry scepticism and a genuine hunger for knowledge that leads her to say, in the play's most resonant line, "It's wanting to know that makes us matter".

Despite competition among game companies, I am still amazed at the camaraderie among supposed rival development studios; in the end, we are all gamers first.

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Sadly, up to now Google's supposed rivals have generated more hype than meaningful results.

Blur's supposed rivals were Oasis, a band that has also been reduced in America to one song, the Beatles-y ballad "Wonderwall".

Boris, by contrast, has been an obliging facilitator of the policies of his supposed rivals David Cameron and George Osborne, policies that are doing London great harm.

Heroin addict Bubbles reveals to detectives Kima and McNulty that supposed rivals Stringer and Proposition Joe are now sharing territory – "cats and dogs, sleeping together," as Kima puts it.

Manchester United's procession to the title was a testament not only to their efficiency but also to the ineptitude of their supposed rivals, and you could make a strong case for about a dozen teams deserving relegation.

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