Sentence examples for were a competition from inspiring English sources

But if there were a competition like the one the V.C.U.

He sat with two other men in the front office, where they smoked cigarettes as if it were a competition.

Meetings at Greylock have a suppressed ferocity, as if there were a competition for who among the partners comes across as the most low-key.

If there were a competition for Most Pitiful Childhood Memoir -- and current bookstore shelves do suggest the possibility -- Jennifer Lauck's "Blackbird" would be a formidable contender.

If there were a competition rewarding inactivity, he says, he probably wouldn't actually get it together to enter, such is the extent of his laziness.

In one, he carries her, pinioned but facing up, on his back; in another he spins while holding her, again facing up, above his head, as if this were a competition ice-skating duet.

"It's a competition".

This was a competition.

This is a competition.

Inevitably, it's a competition.

It's a competition thing".