Synonym: argue, contend, fight, game, quarrel, sport, struggle, tournament. Similar words: context, contend, contemplate, contemporary, a bone of contention, on the contrary, test, testing. Meaning: ['kɒntest] 
n. 1. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants 2. a struggle between rivals. v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation.
n. 1. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants 2. a struggle between rivals. v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation. 
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121. The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.
122. As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts.
123. The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
124. He presided over the 1990 leadership contest that saw the departure of Margaret Thatcher and the arrival of John Major.
125. But one thing remained constant: In a big contest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.
126. As the boss of this contest, you get to set the rules.
127. Boat Show, of course, as will all other contest entrants, making everybody who entered the contest a winner.
128. Yet the contest is as deadly as before, and often crueler.
129. Of course, if you are the type who will enter this contest, you probably already own it.
130. Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election.
131. Hooker, Glynn Mann got them back into it and after that there was no contest.
132. Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.
133. The only contest for an elective office is for city treasurer.
134. Dave Simpson's adult comedy, set in a beauty contest, returns to Liverpool after a successful run last year.
135. That contest between the jumpers will now be clean; that is, there will be no blocking or barging.
136. In the Republican contest Bush won 76 percent of the votes in Illinois,[sentencedict.com] compared with 22 percent for Buchanan.
137. Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
138. Too often a trial becomes a contest between the trial judge and the appellate court, and justice is forgotten.
139. He voted for Mr Heseltine rather than Mrs Thatcher in the 1990 leadership contest.
140. You lost that contest with my Sam because I decided you had to lose it.
141. His close rival, the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest.
142. To enter this super contest simply answer the following question and state which hand-held you would like to win.
143. Other players could still enter the contest, but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board.
144. This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.
145. Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.
146. The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight, with the referee on the cruiser's side.
147. The grievance between the Bank Assistants and the Bank for parity was a fair contest.
148. All these chores, if efficiently organized, can tilt the balance in a close-run contest.
149. Indeed, most of the old crooks have been allowed to contest the election.
150. You are dressed in formal evening clothes, and it is obvious you are competing in a ballroom dance contest.
More similar words: context, contend, contemplate, contemporary, a bone of contention, on the contrary, test, testing, protest, testify, testimony, interest, control, contain, confront, contrast, contract, continue, contribute, continent, container, continued, continuous, by contrast, continuing, contractor, contrast to, contributor, contribution, controversy.