How to Use contract in a Sentence

contract

1 of 2 noun

• I tore up the contract.
• Have you signed the contract yet?
• The contract requires him to finish work by the end of the year.
• Winning the fight may not be enough alone to get the contract.
  — Robert Rimpson, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
• Crossroads has signed contracts through the end of this year.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• The length of the contract (seven years) is a surprise.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• Westbrook is not worth the headache or the ridiculous contract.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• At least a quarter of those plan to move to contract nursing.
  — Lauren Coleman-Lochner, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• The move allows the Lions to prorate that cap hit over the life of the contract.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
• There was no immediate word on the length of the contract or the money.
  — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• Dan Devine has one more year to go on a five-year contract.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• Both sides need to find common ground on the length and value of the contract, one source added.
  — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• With that in mind, here's a look at the ten worst contracts in world football.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2019
• The Sixers free themselves of a large contract and a bad fit.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• But that search has been slow to start, and the school board has yet to approve a contract with a search firm.
  — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• He was placed on leave after the crash, and his contract expired.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2021
• The owner said the building was under contract to be sold this year.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2021
• At the end of the year, Boyd and Higgins’ contracts will be up.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• At the end of this school year, the transportation contract will expire.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 19 Oct. 2017
• So this, so this contract that the board or that the port’s moving forward on will.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• At the time, Friedgen had three years left on his contract.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The Blazers thought enough of Williams to sign him to a two-way contract.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2022
• The mantle then contracts, which excretes waste from the squid’s body.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• Four trustees would have to vote in favor of overriding the veto for the contract to stand.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• And many of us going to be very insistent at seeing the terms of that contract.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Gray has a team-friendly contract and a track record of some success.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 June 2021
• Yong Prince plans to retire and has a contract to sell her motel at the end of next month.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Harper joined the Knicks in June on a two-way contract.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 18 Dec. 2020
• Ambrose still has an active contract with the city to develop the site.
  — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2020
• But recently news emerged that the singer was in talks to renew a contract for two more years of shows there.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 7 July 2018

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contract

2 of 2 verb

• The muscle expands and then contracts.
• The hot metal contracted as it cooled.
• She contracted her lips into a frown.
• But those ranks are sure to contract in the coming years.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2022
• My fear with a strike is that things are going to contract.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Martin was not one of the six players to contract the virus.
  — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2021
• In a sense, perhaps, in that the world begins to contract.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• There is still plenty of risk for those who contract the virus.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2021
• And as more people contract it, the odds of new variants rise.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021
• The heat causes all the fibers in the denim to contract, making the pair smaller.
  — Rachel Bogo, Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2019
• Once the stomach muscles won’t contract, the set is over.
  — Boris Abrams, GQ, 17 May 2018
• Two of the six contracted the disease outside of the clinic.
  — Nick Powell, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• That rollout will say a lot about how the virus spreads and whether the economy will contract again.
  — Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2020
• These chemicals cause the blood vessels and muscles in the uterus to contract.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 May 2022
• As a result, the children were turned over to the people who contracted them out to the egg farm.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Many people who contract the virus lose their senses of taste and smell.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• When wrapped around a suspect’s arm and chest, the tubes would swell and contract with the motion of their heart.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• The risk of contracting it is smaller than that of being involved in a car crash.
  — Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News, 8 Sep. 2017
• Trump is far from the first world leader to contract coronavirus.
  — NBC news, 2 Oct. 2020
• The idea is to stop spread of the virus by protecting anyone who might be at risk of contracting it.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 June 2018
• Kitty contracts around her life rather than opening to it.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• As the bones contract, small screws are released inside her legs.
  — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• Influenza is common and can be contracted at any time of the year.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• It is spread through bites or scratches, and humans can contract it.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2021
• Here’s the long list of the various diseases humans can contract from ticks.
  — Kate Sheridan, SELF, 14 July 2018
• One was the True Knot contracting measles from one of their victims.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• Your gut is lined with nerves that work to expand and contract to push food through your digestive tract.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Aug. 2020
• Her husband did not contract the virus but did self-isolate for two weeks.
  — NBC News, 2 Oct. 2020
• The muscle cells would become less excitable and less likely to contract.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Mar. 2021
• The city would contract with an auditor as needed rather than hire one full-time.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024