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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181. The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.
182. They are spreading the idea that the contest is already all but over.
183. Eventually that contest was supplanted by a wonderfully violent game played in the same small space, but with a beach ball.
184. Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
185. Spaulding said the design firms who lost in the contest will be encouraged to submit plans for individual buildings on the campus.
186. Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest, leaving him as sole contender.
187. At present there is no contest for the five and threes enthusiasts in the county although there is a national competition.
188. He calculated that he could not beat either Heath or Maudling, and he preferred to avoid the contest.
189. Irvin served a five-game suspension this season after pleading no contest to felony cocaine possession.
190. It was not a cry of contest with any game it was a faintly choking cry.
191. Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.
192. A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
193. As predicted, the Republican contest was duly won by Bush, whilst Harkin massively outscored his Democratic rivals.
194. And I literally got into a shouting contest with somebody the first month of the job.
195. They were due to televise the contest from the Barbican centre in York to local pubs and clubs.
196. An annual contest for authors of programs that can fool human judges at least some of the time was suspended last year.
197. But the relationship between computers and chess goes far deeper than the contest for supremacy on the chess board itself.
198. Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need[sentencedict .com], although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
199. For the Concordat, in theory at least, brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century.
200. He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest, so Ken did know what he was doing.
201. Mason is one of the few hardware suppliers to contest his case in court.
202. Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.
203. Dole lags considerably among women voters in the fall contest with President Clinton, according to recent surveys.
204. All this contest provided was confirmation that this team is nowhere near what it claimed to be, and fading fast.
205. Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.
206. Paul Tsongas, who had formally withdrawn from the contest, polled 12, 8 and 10 percent respectively.
207. Given their historic contest with the sea, perhaps they have to be.
208. Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.
209. Feminist psychologies which work by association, stay close enough to psychology's concerns to be able to contest them.
210. His next sentence unobtrusively removed an argument that might have been used against me in the leadership 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.