Example sentences for: contention

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

  • Earlier, J. C. Hotten's Slang Dictionary suggested it might be a corruption of contentious . Most dictionaries today accept the theory that it arose from a Middle English word conteck `quarrelling' or `contention.

  • My real quarrel, however, is with Stein's contention that "I have written these views entirely from the point of view of the man.

  • in the phrase ain't I ,” was not reflective of the facts: I knew many cultivated speakers in most parts of the U.S., and the only time I ever heard them say ain't was in jocular contexts or in virtual quotations, like She ain't what she used to be . I must admit that my evidence was entirely impressionistic, but Gove provided no statistical support for his contention, either.

  • Everybody makes it clear that the central bone of contention is Microsoft's practice of requiring PC makers to include its Internet Explorer browsing software on each computer sold with MS's Windows operating system.

  • Lind's contention is that things would have even worse if the United States had simply taken a pass on Vietnam.


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