Sentence examples for would contend for from inspiring English sources

Few, if any, predicted they would contend for the playoffs.

He hoped his boat would contend for a medal.

Most estimated that the Thunder would contend for a playoff berth next season.

Before the season, Few expected that his team would contend for another conference title.

He told the Saints they would contend for a championship and they insisted that they believed him.

Good, personified as the god Ormazd, and evil, personified as the demonic Ahriman, would contend for 12,000 years with varying fortune.

Though it was unlikely they'd contend for gold, Chock and Bates were within reach of bronze before the fall.

The Braves' year in 2008 started out with such promise -- I predicted we'd contend for the league championship -- and went south in such a hurry that I barely had time to catch my breath before I had to start bemoaning what went wrong.

Of course, some would contend that, for sheer excitement, the spectacle of beautiful zombies parading a catwalk is not half as exciting as watching reruns of "The Lawrence Welk Show" on television.

State insurance officials and critics of the stricter rules have disagreed in the past over whether those rules had sufficient provisions for those who would contend that they had good reason for missing the deadlines.

They thought they would contend with St .Louis and Houston for the N.L. Central title.