Similar words: intending, contend, tending, contender, attending, pretending, condescending, condescendingly. Meaning: [kən'tend] 
adj. striving or struggling in rivalry or battle.
adj. striving or struggling in rivalry or battle. 
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1 Three armed groups are contending for power.
2 Our football team is contending with one from the next town for the championship.
3 There are three world - class tennis players contending for this title.
4 He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
5 Three armed groups were contending for power.
6 They fell to contending about the least important points in the design.
7 The fairy king and queen were contending over possession of the cat.
8 Inevitably,(www.Sentencedict.com) fights break out between the members of contending groups.
9 Sixteen football teams are contending for the World Cup this year.
10 Ten teams are contending for the title.
11 Guthrie has argued for an Orphic-Pythagorean identity, contending that they contain ideas identical to Orphic teachings.
12 The main characters are virtuous people, contending with afflictions throughout the play, but finally rewarded with happiness.
13 Kant answers the first questions by contending that we can not strictly speaking know that there is such a moral law.
14 In contending with the conventional wisdom, he, no less than others, needed the support of circumstances.
15 Five months later, the Maharashtra government suspended work, contending the project was too expensive.
16 Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries.
17 Militant groups are contending for control of the country.
18 He has been contending with difficulties.
19 There is no contending against odd.
20 Our baseball team is contending for the championship.
21 We are contending with difficulties.
22 He is fond of contending about everything.
23 He is an arbiter between the contending parties.
24 It was sufficiently toilsome for one contending for life.
25 Many considered him a hard-working and innovative member of the bench who accomplished tough settlements between contending parties.
26 As well as grappling with the weakness of output, policymakers are contending with another emerging markets crisis.
27 But meanwhile, in Jerusalem, alas! two sons of Alexander Jannaeus were contending for the kingship.
28 Without her knowledge, in August 1989 the landlord had issued proceedings, wrongly contending that he was a resident landlord.
29 Certainly, the Treasury was to be a major battle ground between contending philosophies.
30 Organizers who were fretting about millions of unsold tickets are contending with lines of hopeful spectators stretching five city blocks.
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