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Example sentences for: contestants

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

Ames has organized the contestants.
If the former, then all the contestants have missed the boat on the second event.
Today's Papers thinks this cries out for a new parlor game: Two random media businesses are named and contestants vie to connect them corporately in the fewest steps.
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.
Since that is his criterion for excellence in government, I hope he will remember to review the résumés of drug dealers, lotto winners, sitcom stars, and successful contestants from Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?