Example sentences for: rivaled

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

  • In a desperate commingling of self-abasement and self-interest rivaled only by Kathryn Harrison's memoir of French-licking her father, Joyce sold the story of her 1990 breast-augmentation surgery to Self magazine.

  • As in previous key Oklahoma bombing proceedings, no statements rivaled in power those of survivors and victims' relatives.

  • Mann must have had legal constraints that rivaled those at 60 Minutes . The FBI, which responds to a death threat, carries off Wigand's computer while he sputters that it contains all his important data.

  • In ancient times Corinth rivaled Athens in its power and influence.

  • Thirtysome entries flowed in, for consideration by a jury of 14 experts whose diverse national and professional backgrounds rivaled even the crew of Star Trek --ranging from Baron Philippe Robert-Jones, art historian and permanent secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique in Brussels, to Guido Crapanzano, rector of the Instituto di Scienze della Comunicazione in Milan.


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