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Example sentences for: rival

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

Erich Honecker’s regime won international diplomatic recognition for East Berlin as its capital and, with gleaming hotels and skyscrapers, tried to give it a lustre to rival West Berlin.
Police have no leads, but everyone suspects the shooting is a payback for last year's drive-by assassination of rival rapper Tupac Shakur.
In those days the two rival halves were in no rush to unite.
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The Solomonic decision, to award custody to the woman who was willing to give the child to her rival rather than see it killed by being split between them was just the opposite of splitting the baby . Nevertheless, by some apparent converse of the Niceness Principle, the language perpetuates the notion that the baby was split and that a judge acts wisely in following that example.