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Example sentences for: vied

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

I listened in fascination as each camp counselor and administrator vied to involve her in extra roll calls.
Dozens of tiny Marxist sects vied to launch the Revolution.
But enough has been said to show that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a cult of personality in which King's lieutenants covered up his sexual peccadilloes and vied obscenely for his attention and the chance to succeed him in the public eye.
A snarl of other news issues vied for the No.
One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.