The contestant you hope to defeat

Usage examples of challenger.

I could not help at once taking Akeley more seriously than I had taken any of the other challengers of my views.

Bryar, another top challenger from the lower forty-eight, and Lombard ran teams of registered Siberian Huskies against the Alaskan village dogs.

The challenger who had tried to seize Birdy Zelker, fell sprawling to the floor.

At the housefront Dad had begun to stride up and down the street, bare-chested, his battered gloves on, calling himself the champion of the world, and inviting all challengers.

Maybe, if that could be done, it would put Mnrogar in a position to scare off this challenger who may have attracted the whole army of trolls around the castle right now.

Mnrogar can defeat this challenger for his territory, will all those other trolls just go back where they came from?

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

Backing down in the face of a threat brings shame and humiliation, which, if you are a leader, means that you lose the support of your loyalists against other challengers and may well be toppled by them.

Lerrys, you are an officer, you know no challenge is valid unless both challengers are sober!

Norton feared that it would be a long time before the skippers of Calypso, Beagle and Challenger would speak to him again.

It had been the most traumatic incident of the age of space exploration, far more painful than the Challenger loss, because Bellwether and his crew were able to communicate for several days afterward, until their air supply ran out.

There, through a shimmering veil of chainmail, he saw the Pompeii and its new additions, still linked to Challenger and each of the Blood ships with a thin single thread each, as if it were holding kite strings.

Greg remembered the hundreds of APVs and Challenger IV tanks parked in the Chunnel marshalling yards after he got back from Turkey.

Even Challenger was affected by the consideration that his enemies would never stand confuted if the confirmation of his statements should never reach those who had doubted them.

It’s bad press to claim Darwin is a fool and dinos and other extinct animals never existed, and then along comes Challenger .