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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:

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.
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.
"The winning contestant will, after being crowned, open up her head and show us all the little gears and circuits inside."
The final contestant, Andrejs Vlascenko, placed dead last--but in the process he managed to bump Candeloro up to second place, denying Zagorodniuk a silver medal.
The unfortunate contestant simply knew his physics and philosophy, and recall was immediate.