COMPETITION in a Sentence

Learn COMPETITION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
110 example sentences for COMPETITION, such as:
1. I never thought of starting competition.
2. The company fought off tough competition.
3. I shall enter for the singing competition.
4. Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.
5. We beat their heads off at an English competition.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPETITION
competition
 n.  the contestant you hope to defeat
 n.  a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  She did not care for the eager competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget their twice-turned frocks and patched shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  She could see for herself how quickly the town was rebuilding and anyone who could establish a lumber business now, when there was so little competition, would have a gold mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  What they meant was: they felt you were starting dangerous competition by giving a party such as most people here can't afford.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  I never thought of starting competition.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  This falling for anybody's say-so about medical jealousy and competition is simply part and parcel of your usual willingness to think the worst you possibly can of us poor dubs in Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Of course, since we're at war with Germany, anything that any one of us doesn't like is 'pro-German,' whether it's business competition or bad music.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Jurgis, as a beggar, was simply a blundering amateur in competition with organized and scientific professionalism.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
8  He had gone into business, and found himself in competition with the fortunes of those who had been stealing while he had been fighting.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
9  You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
10  "I have pointed out some of the negative wastes of competition," answered the other.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
11  Heyward smiled to himself at the idea of a competition with the scout, though he determined to persevere in the deception, until apprised of the real designs of Magua.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
12  His fine figure, alert limbs, and bright face, raised an instant competition, and half a dozen bids simultaneously met the ear of the auctioneer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  He was her dear Wickham on every occasion; no one was to be put in competition with him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 51
14  Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55
15  So there can be no competition or perplexity between you and me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine.
2  A panel of young judges, to be chosen through a national competition, will announce its own winners.
3  We beat their heads off at an English competition.
4  It's going to be a tough competition but I'm mentally prepared for it.
5  The company fought off tough competition.
6  Foreign competition provides consumers with a greater variety of goods.
7  There must be fair play whatever the competition is.
8  There is now intense competition between schools to attract students.
9  British athletes had mixed fortunes in yesterday's competition.
10  With competition from cheap imports, the British coal industry is facing a serious crisis.
11  The competition is planned as a dry run for the World Cup finals.
12  Despite fierce competition she made a gallant effort to win the first medal of the championships.
13  I shall enter for the singing competition.
14  Everyone was silent as the president announced the winner of the competition.
15  You can't realistically expect to win the whole competition.