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Example sentences for: contender

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

McCain asserted that he'd become a contender.
But at some point, expect the press to start treating some other candidate as a plausible and promising contender.
2 contender is L.A.
Building-space on the water being what it is, Venice has only one real piazza (all others are called “campi”), but in comparison, any other contender would have died of shame anyway.
At least here was one genuinely level playing field on which the United States was just another contender, not a superpower.