How to Use contestant in a Sentence

contestant

noun

• The contestant who catches the most fish wins.
• The winning contestants will receive a cash prize.
• There were behind-the-scenes looks at the contestants’ lives.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Even if a lot of the contestants turned up the melodrama to a hundred.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• The top 8 contestants were slimmed down to the top 5 when viewers’ votes were tallied and revealed at the end of the show.
  — USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The contestants, all between the ages of 8 and 13, laugh at the father-daughter antics on the stage.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• For the first seven weeks, the contestants on The Block 2023 were firmly split into two groups.
  — Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• Some of them have been caught on camera yelling racist taunts at Black and Asian contestants.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The winner of each game receives three points, and the second-place contestant gets one.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• These contestants are in the early days of their careers.
  — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
• In fact all the contestants should have some similar kind of shtick, just as many teams do in dugouts.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• James Barfield, the home cook from Portland, and the rest of the contestants were challenged to make cakes (though some were pies, which makes the episode title seem weird).
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2023
• Five of the contestants said they were then photographed topless.
  — Niniek Karmini, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• The show’s contestants will be revealed at a later date.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
• And much like the contestants on Naked Attraction, the companies were laid bare for all to see.
  — Sal Gentile, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• Six contestants are from the state of New York and four are from California.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• Emma Stone has been applying to be a contestant on Jeopardy! for years and has yet to make the cut.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
• Plus, just look at all the great first-time contestants (Parvati, Penner, Ozzy, Yul).
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• And of course, Starlink is only one contestant (with an enormous head start) in a new space race.
  — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• Nance, whose mother is Filipino and father Black and Arab, was among the top three contestants of the season that wrapped up last week.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Based on her Instagram, the contestant loves to spend some time outdoors.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• While there are challenges to not being able to see the contestants, Bareilles says that there were more benefits to the unique format.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 1 June 2023
• Every woman contestant in the show was at least 60 years old, with the oldest being 75.
  — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• The contestants with the fewest votes face elimination.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
• The crowd cheered as the video message ended, while some of the celebrity contestants and pro dance partners clapped their hands and held up heart signs with their hands.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• One of the standout performances from the night was not from a contestant, but rather from co-host Hannah Waddingham.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• The winning contestant just needs to agree to the name change if randomly selected.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 29 July 2023
• According to the rules of this high-stakes game, a contestant must get Lotería twice in order to move onto the Lotería Loca round and win the prize money.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• All eleven of this year’s Miss Neshoba County contestants were white.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Editor’s note: The story has been changed to correct the identity of the three contestants.
  — Noel Harris, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024