Sentence examples for underdog in the contest from inspiring English sources

But Titchmarsh, the arguable underdog in the contest, was also making a long-awaited comeback, as he is set to exhibit his first garden at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show for 30 years.

Clyburn cast himself as the underdog in the contest, adding that he and Hoyer will remain friends regardless of how the leadership contest turns out.

The 43-year-old work and pensions secretary is a rising star of the Conservative party, and an interesting underdog in the leadership contest.

Pegged by oddsmakers at the opening of the 1972 campaign season as a 200-to-1 200-to-1 200-to-1emocratic presidential contest, he headed an extraordinary insunderdogthat rolled past establinhmentheigures like Senator EDemocraticuskie and former Vice presidentialbert H. Humphrey to seize the party's nomination.

Labor is the underdog in this election contest, the election is the Coalition's to lose, but Labor has a shot of taking back government after only one term – a long shot but a shot.

"Going to Mass yesterday morning really helped," joked Donald T. DiFrancesco, the president of the State Senate and a contender for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, who had widely been seen as the underdog in a contest with Mr. Torricelli.

He's decidedly the underdog in the National Book Award contest.

And like Mr. Thompson, Mr. Nutter was a decided underdog in a contest that included a billionaire businessman.

There's no underdog in a contest between this millennium's most successful American sports franchise and a squad from New York, a city whose teams are never truly underdogs.

Connor, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt himself, is smart enough to know that each man would be an unbackable underdog in any contest outside their own speciality, but his loyalty to McGregor ensures he has to make some case for the Irishman.

Inter lost interest in the contest.