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Example sentences for: contending

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

Denby even goes against the conventional wisdom, contending that "the Gere-Roberts connection is still alive."
He stonewalled and disrupted the Republicans at every turn, contending that the investigation was ignoring GOP wrongdoing.
And now, most damningly, some conservatives are contending that Carey instigated the UPS strike in order to distract attention from his own troubles.
A long feature blames Yasser Arafat for the failure of the Middle East peace process, contending that Israel has got nothing in return for granting Palestinian autonomy.
In a Slate "" last year, Crook claimed that we were contending that the value of a company is the present value of its stream of future earnings and that such a contention was false.