RIVAL in a Sentence
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105 example sentences for RIVAL, such as:
1. You took fright at the sight of your rival.
2. It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
3. No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.
4. The rival parties libeled each other during the election.
5. She defeat all her rival for the job with nonchalant ease.
2. It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
3. No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.
4. The rival parties libeled each other during the election.
5. She defeat all her rival for the job with nonchalant ease.
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Meanings and Examples of RIVAL
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rival
v. be the rival of, be in competition with
n. the contestant you hope to defeat
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 Kennicott's rival gasped at this insult to professional ethics, and he took an appreciable second before he recovered his social manner.
2 The aristocracy of Gopher Prairie, even the wives of the rival doctors, took part, and for several days there was community spirit and much uplift.
3 Before Harry could answer she threatened that Ray and she would start a rival shop.
4 At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.
5 Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one rival, was to them the monarch of the seas.
6 As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love.
7 The two rival sets of grafters hired halls and set off fireworks and made speeches, to try to get the people interested in the matter.
8 Behind these again swung, heavily opening and closing in silken folds, the rival standards of England and France.
9 The warriors uttered a common ejaculation of pleasure, and then turned their eyes, inquiringly, on the movements of his rival.
10 Tottering among them was the rival color bearer, whom the youth saw had been bitten vitally by the bullets of the last formidable volley.
11 But, whether influenced by the jealousy that seems instinctive with every petted child towards a dangerous rival, or from whatever caprice of her freakish nature, Pearl would show no favour to the clergyman.
12 You see,' he said, still hugging himself in that unpleasant way, and shaking his head at me, 'you're quite a dangerous rival, Master Copperfield.
13 There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad.
14 You took fright at the sight of your rival.
15 In the shed there were five horses in their separate stalls, and Vronsky knew that his chief rival, Gladiator, a very tall chestnut horse, had been brought there, and must be standing among them.
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1 Fights among rival gangs account for most murders in the city.
2 The world champion finished more than two seconds ahead of his nearest rival.
3 Revealing confidential information to a rival company could land you in serious trouble with your boss.
4 No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.
5 The defeated candidate gave a dignified speech in which he congratulated his rival.
6 Their design was rejected in favour of one by a rival company.
7 The rival parties libeled each other during the election.
8 He's not exactly thrilled at the prospect of working for his old rival.
9 A UN force was sent in to stop fighting between three rival militias.
10 The firm is involved in a legal dispute with a rival company.
11 She defeat all her rival for the job with nonchalant ease.
12 It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
13 Just as we were about to publish the story, we were scooped by a rival paper.
14 His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
15 Clinton remains far ahead of Republican rival Bob Dole, according to the latest public opinion surveys.