Example sentences for: contesting

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

  • But it's obvious to the rest of us that contesting this nomination on the basis that Lee might be an activist in government is rank hypocrisy.

  • Twelve of the 48 parties contesting the election are Muslim-based, and some want to make Islam the country's established religion.

  • In all of these other cases, Lind says, the United States understood the importance of winning or at least contesting the proxy fight: mounting an airlift to Berlin, arming Taiwan, fighting in Korea, making clear that it would resist any further push on these frontiers.

  • Skeptics said the president simply realized that contesting defense spending would be unpopular.

  • In America, similarly, the Federalist party and the Republican Democratic party were contesting with each other for the exclusive title of friends to the constitution of the United States in the 19th century.


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