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Example sentences for: contest

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The "Back Page" of the recent New Yorker "Cartoon" issue features a wacky contest: Write a caption for a Jack Ziegler drawing of a girl on her front porch shouting something about the man in the suit struggling up the path with a huge globe on his shoulders.
The daily New Vision of Uganda led its front page Wednesday with a report not mentioning the murders but stressing that 17 of the 32 abducted tourists had escaped, and it placed this next to an account of a 19-year-old Namibian woman winning the 1999 Face-of-Africa modeling contest at the Windhoek Country Club.
It was "a personal, bare-knuckled contest, fought and lost on the banalities of local politics."
The Soviet Union and its pawns and allies really wanted to expand their ideological, military, and territorial influence, and they really were engaged in a winner-take-all contest with the United States and its allies for supremacy.
You know, where everyone put the news that OJ had pleaded no contest to beating his wife.