Example sentences for: rivalries

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

  • Its royal House of Savoy walked a diplomatic tightrope between the rivalries of France, Switzerland, Spain, and the German emperors until the fall of Napoleon.

  • If only all these rivalries could be resolved with the grace of George Harrison, who, after losing Patti Boyd to Eric Clapton, recorded a version of "Bye, Bye, Love," amending the line, "I hope she's happy, I sure am blue," to "I hope she's happy, ol' Clapper, too."

  • While occasional ethnic tensions arise, they rarely flare into the kind of violence such rivalries foster elsewhere in the world.

  • Bitter rivalries exist between followers of the major religions as well as among the sects within those religions.

  • Rather than a technical challenge, the project has been a huge coordination effort, requiring that the CIO organization overcome rivalries and achieve the commitment and cooperation of traditionally autonomous education sectors.


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