Example sentences for: vied

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

  • 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.

  • Dozens of tiny Marxist sects vied to launch the Revolution.

  • The country's two largest circulation dailies vied with each other to damn him in the most extravagant terms.

  • 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.

  • George Mitchell and George Michael vied for stardom in the British press Thursday.


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