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Example sentences for: contest

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One thousand six hundred seventy-eight people from 19 countries entered a contest called "Jesus 2000" sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter , an independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo.
Chatterbox's request that readers submit nominations for the First Annual Joseph Heller Memorial Cliché Contest yielded a huge response.
USA Today leads with its new poll finding the Republicans and Democrats in a virtual dead heat in their contest for Congress.
What we have now is a beauty contest, I think, in which the candidates will say as little as possible and wait for the rival or rivals to crack under the camera lights.
And coming up soon, two additional Back of the Book features: an interactive acrostic puzzle, and a stock-market contest.