How to Use challenge in a Sentence

challenge

1 of 2 verb

• None of them were willing to challenge the referee on the call.
• She's been challenged on her handling of the problem.
• The work doesn't challenge him anymore, and he's often bored.
• A number of doctors are challenging the study's claims.
• The new lawsuit challenges the lower court's decision.
• It's a game that will challenge a child's imagination.
• How many books were challenged or banned?
  — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
• Calls in each of those counts were challenged twice.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Tech trade groups have challenged those in court.
  — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• The tree must stand strong against the winds that challenge it.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Life is full of lessons that will challenge you all along the way.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
• The Avalanche challenged but the call stood.
  — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
• And then to not be able to get folks in is challenging.
  — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
• Schwartz did not appear in court to challenge the case.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2026
• But as soon as he’s challenged from behind.
  — Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Quero challenged, and again it was overturned to a strike.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• No game challenged it, no app daunted it.
  — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
• Challenge your brain and challenge your work habits and stuff like that.
  — David Kehrli, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
• The move is being challenged in court.
  — Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Thousands of books are challenged each year.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
• With his job, he was challenged further.
  — Essence, 18 Mar. 2026
• Caballero did not challenge that one, though.
  — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Perez challenged and the call was overturned.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
• Try it on your next leg day to challenge (and build) your strength and power.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 11 June 2019
• That's been challenged a little bit.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 15 June 2026
• Those are being challenged, as well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• The law has been challenged in court, but the judges have not yet taken up the case.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
• The comment went on to challenge the wife to take action.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
• Young was not at the meeting and did not challenge the findings.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2021
• But the bigger issue is that the rule is sure to be challenged in court.
  — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025

challenge

2 of 2 noun

• The band feels ready for new challenges.
• Do you accept my challenge to a game of chess?
• If he takes on the new project he will face the greatest challenge of his career.
• The ski slope offers a high degree of challenge.
• Management is seeking ways to better meet the challenge of future growth.
• The senator may face a challenge from within her own party.
• Teaching adolescents can be quite a challenge.
• The next major challenge for the company is to improve its distribution capabilities.
• Any of that in challenges is bad.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026
• The challenge has been there for years.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• This was my challenge, my task.
  — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
• There are still big challenges ahead.
  — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
• Ukraine has made that a much greater challenge.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• That’s what’s part of the challenge.
  — John Sturbin, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
• Go vote, and then there’s a challenge.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
• If not, what are the main challenges to change that?
  — Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• At home, Takaichi faces her own challenges.
  — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
• What are your thoughts about the challenge coming from him?
  — Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
• The team’s next challenge is teaching the beast to turn.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
• The project has stalled with a host of legal challenges.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
• The challenge has to do with language.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
• That’s one of the challenges a lot of people had with smart home.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Dec. 2018
• The challenge will be funding the bill.
  — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• The challenge is how to make these early moves durable at scale.
  — Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
• More to the point, though, was the challenge itself.
  — Max Bultman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• The fridge-clean-out meal is my favorite challenge each week.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 21 June 2022
• Those same remote and rugged places can present their own challenges.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
• Smith, who is doing the challenge with his wife this year, said.
  — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
• As his star keeps burning, his challenge will be to keep his flame hot.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• The hiking trail has some steep hills, which can be a challenge for some.
  — Tyler Carter, Dallas News, 28 May 2021