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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:

At this writing [June 1990], there is a contender for the national leadership in West Germany with the name La Fontaine , while the prime minister of East Germany is De Maiziere.
But at some point, expect the press to start treating some other candidate as a plausible and promising contender.
The Democratic contender also netted more contributions over the Internet than anyone else, surpassing $1.
2 contender is L.A.
The national Republican Party reportedly pressured Pataki to do it so there'd be a strong Republican campaign against the probable Democratic contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton.