Example sentences for: contested

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

  • In any contested election, candidates would continue to spend until they had exhausted all their own and their supporters' resources.

  • Ditto for free-range chicken and draft beer . And then there are what sound like redundancies: French champagne is a hotly contested instance.

  • The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the surprising result of Indonesia's first truly contested presidential election in nearly 50 years: the victory (in a vote taken in the national legislature, not among the general public) of a first-time office-holder, an aging, frail, and nearly blind Muslim cleric named Abdurrahman Wahid.

  • Because that determination was not contested here, the Court in the exercise of its discretion and prudential judgment declines to address it.

  • While our understanding of the nature hypnosis is complex and contested, it is rapidly evolving.


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