How to Use compete in a Sentence
compete
verb- Thousands of applicants are competing for the same job.
- She competed against students from around the country.
- We are competing with companies that are twice our size.
- Did you compete in the track meet on Saturday?
- The radio and the television were both on, competing for our attention.
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Louisville track and field is among the teams scheduled to compete.
—Brooks Warren, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2024
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The Huskies have a good chance to compete in every game from here on out.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2022
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To compete against him & to work with him was a blessing in my life.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2024
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Teams no longer compete in eight groups of four during the group stages.
—Ben Church, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
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Bunny competes, among others, for Artist of the Year, Global 200 artist of the year, and tour of the year.
—Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024
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Like Harris, Lester can compete for time on the court right away.
—Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2022
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The field will start with 132 golfers who will compete in a stroke-play format over two days.
—Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2022
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But solid might not be enough to compete for the title.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
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Stop by the Alaska State Fairgrounds to compete in the games or to spectate.
—Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
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But adding players to compete on the field is only part of the equation.
—oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2023
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For weeks, for months, for over a year How could your freedom compete with our fear?
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
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Players compete for points in the Mario world spread across a giant screen.
—Asuka Kawanabe, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
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This one competes head-to-head with Intel's 10th gen i9.
—Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
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As a group of the court, our job is to go out there and compete and win and play and improve on a nightly basis.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
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The winners of the semifinal games will compete for gold.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
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Speaking of gap-closing, the Cards expect to field a team good enough to at least compete with the Cats this fall.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
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The 1915 Derby was won by Regret, who did not compete in the Preakness.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
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Both Tania and Nyaundi will be in Boston to watch Obiri compete.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
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Arizona will compete as the sixth seed at the Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas.
—Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2022
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Archers compete to win each stage and to qualify for the World Cup Final.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
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Boys and girls will compete in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman style.
—Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2022
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Chiles, who was waiting at the end of the vault runway to compete, jumped in the air and pulled the freshman into a tight embrace.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
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Each three-member team paid a $3,500 entry fee to compete in the bee, which was held in-person for the first time in two years.
—Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
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Nasdaq operates several exchanges in the Nordics that could compete too.
—Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2025
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Project Kuiper seeks to compete directly with the likes of SpaceX’s Starlink and other companies to offer broadband internet service.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2025
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