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Example sentences for: contestant

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

One contestant says she asked her mother, "How does it feel to have a daughter that's going to be in the public and everybody knows that she's going to have sex tomorrow?"
I feel a little like a contestant on an old-time game show like "Supermarket Sweep," staggering to the check-out counter with boxes of Cheerios and cellophane-wrapped Porterhouse steaks dropping off the top of my overstuffed grocery cart.
As a contestant, the Boulder, Colo., child dressed as an adult (wearing lipstick and high heels) and performed suggestive dances.
Halfway through the run, I tried our next sport-food contestant: Power Gel from PowerBar, a little packet of goo that one is meant to squeeze into one's mouth in the midst of an exercise session.
USAT runs a top-front "talker" about the decision of the folks running the Miss America contest to relax its rules about contestant marriage and childbirth.