Sentence examples for we vied from inspiring English sources

In time, I suppose we vied with each other, merrily boasting who'd been inflicted with the best, or rather worse, of literals and misprints.

Like firewalkers, or sleepers on beds of nails, we vied and swaggered: see my magic, look how brave I am, I never make a fuss.

We vied with each other to out do the other team members so we became really creative.

Stenshoel said, "We vie for who's further left".

"We vie for market share with beer and wine and yet we're being discriminated against," Ms. Blatman said.

Individual selfhood has taken on a different tenor; we "brand" ourselves (what an awful verb, aligned as it is with the practice of burning the owner's initials into flesh), we vie for "followers" on social media, we turn our experience into "content" that can be assimilated and "liked" quickly and reassuringly by others in our network.

As we vie for resources, the will to live turns into hostility, war, and power.

In this way, STEAM is not an acronym we vie to integrate, it is simply a natural part of telling the stories of our Inductees.

In my workplace in our make-a-wish efforts, we vie for Airline, Cher, Eagles, or San Jose Shark tickets in a raffle.

We would vie to see which of us spotted him first, and whoever did would rush to point out, "There's our guy".

Lord Puttnam, then plain David, the producer of Chariots Of Fire, which won several Oscars in the same year that Beatty's Reds came out, remembers Beatty offering the olive branch after a long-running and well-publicised spat: 'We were vying for the same people and materials which, I think, started off as a row about costumes.