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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211. Bohunt school gave the correct answer and won the contest with the score: Bohunt 28, Mill Chase 24.
212. A fast buck Henry Rix 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest.
213. In the contest for national ascendancy, motherhood appeared to be trumping arms-bearing.
214. It is comforting to hear your team-mates shouting their encouragement during a contest. Sit with your back straight and head erect.
215. In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
216. By the closing date for nominations for the leadership contest of Nov. 15 only Thatcher and Heseltine had been nominated.
217. We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon 
218. The southern difference will be all the more pronounced if, as expected, Lott wins the contest against Cochran.
219. Third, in a contest between ships and shore batteries, the odds would be against the former.
220. College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game.
221. The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
222. The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
223. But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest.
224. Of course we can contest this kind of sexism by arguing about the accuracy of particular scientific findings.
225. MacQuillan was destined to win the contest, but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first.
226. As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.
227. Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960[Sentencedict], the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.
228. Today, accessories are as hot as chili salsa served at a tango contest.
229. The New Statesman itself and Scallywag have indicated they will contest the libel actions still pending against them.
230. This was a contest that will be remembered as the day the Saints became bemused sinners.
231. Fortunes can be won or lost on a guess about bad weather as the contest between speculators moves back and forth.
232. Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.
233. Mullin, who was fired in August 1994, will contest the charges, his attorney has said.
234. More objective observers regarded the contest as too close to call.
235. Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
236. The junior girls' basketball team, with Amelia watching over them, came out first in their local contest.
237. In any event, in mid-April he withdrew from the contest.
238. It is interesting to contrast Britomart's fight with Radigund with Artegall's final contest with Grantorto.
239. As a result the Eurovision Song Contest delays a hard core of trivia-obsessed nutcases for four hours each year.
240. Did I mention that the contest is also a fund-raiser?
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.