Sentence examples for would vie from inspiring English sources

The top two would vie in a general election.

Regional powers would vie for pre-eminence and assert their historic claims.

"If you were sat round a fire, or in a house, people would vie for attention.

Instead of competing in a sprint for cash, candidates would vie for votes.

When an order came in from Penberton, the drivers would vie for the chance to deliver it.

Young men in striped jackets and boaters would vie for the affections of equally WASPy young women.

He recently told Entertainment Weekly that he'd enjoyed studying "Paradise Lost" in college, and that he'd vied for the role of Satan for three years, even filming an unsolicited audition in his kitchen.

Pack leadership also included wolf 754M, the beta male (755M's brother), who'd vied for 832F's admiration and then helped the alpha pair care for their pups.

And, secondly, the researchers didn't suggest that robots would eventually vie with humans for control of the earth, or offer any side-by-side comparison of how humans and robots would evolve.

The figures were possibly based on the painter Duncan Grant and the Stephens sisters, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell, who would later vie for Grant's attentions.

Asked whether England would now vie for the World Cup finals again, he said the FA could bid for the 2030 tournament despite previous attempts descending into farce under the old Fifa regime.