Example sentences for: compete

How can you use “compete” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In some cases, transcription factors may bind cooperatively to adjacent DNA sites via direct physical interaction [ 3 4 ] . In other cases, multiple transcription factors that bind independently may recruit a common co-activator [ 5 ] , or may act independently of one another to alter gene expression in response to distinct cellular cues [ 6 ] . Recent studies have also suggested that nearby transcription factors may collaboratively compete with nucleosomes, thus enhancing the binding of individual transcription factors [ 7 8 ] . Many experiments in yeast have shown that specific pairs of factors must be bound near each other for multifactorial regulation to occur [ 7 8 9 10 ] , and it is on these spatial constraints that we focus here.

  • Regarding the release of admiring letters she had written to Clinton after their disputed Oval Office meeting, he is quoted saying, "We don't pretend we can compete with the White House spin machine."

  • The bands are loud — they have to be to compete with the groups of Elvis imitators in black leather jackets and sideburns who also lay claim to some of this great free space, dancing in circles to the oldies on enormous boomboxes.

  • A couple of weeks ago, Messinger gave a speech before a business group, in which she proposed to reduce the city's budget by $1 billion, to force work-rule changes on unions, to permit private contractors to compete with city agencies--the kinds of innovations common in Republican-dominated cities like Indianapolis and Phoenix.

  • The Age of Melbourne was quietly pleased, as were other Australian newspapers, about a special gas-emissions deal being offered to its country in Kyoto, but paid more attention to a Canberra Senate ruling that transsexuals should be allowed to compete in sports competitions, raising the question of whether they should do so as women or be put in a category of their own.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast