Champion wannabe

Usage examples of contender.

Between him and Derai could be thirty-seven contenders, each of whom would take the chance of an easy kill so as to lower the competition.

The general rule in antiques is, the pricier the antique, the more serious are the contenders for its throne.

Planch has some fixed notions of justice, and it appears another contender for the person of Trema came on the scene, and paid Planch more than Chenso Planch took some mixed-up vengeance against Chen and Trantor for the ruin of Madder Loss.

Caldor has two contenders and there is a possibility that both might win you are allowed to send two aspirants to the area beyond the far gate.

Now if Caldor had a couple more contenders lined up and they managed to get placed either side then the odds would be different.

Kayle brought their drinks before the Owl-Master could respond, and, after she departed, Baden, Trahn, and Orris embarked on a lengthy, speculative discussion of the various possible contenders for the position.

Good-natured banter flew back and forth, wagers were laid, and woe betide the contender who was unhorsed during these practice bouts, for the thing that a knight dreaded even more than he dreaded death was ridicule.

Emir by now, then that son of a psoriatic skin scraping is no longer a contender for the Caliphate anyway.

Once inside the zone no contender is permitted to leave other than by the far gate.

As Caldor has two contenders and there is a possibility that both might win you are allowed to send two aspirants to the area beyond the far gate.

If he's deposed the Emir by now, then that son of a psoriatic skin scraping is no longer a contender for the Caliphate anyway.

For more than ten years the present champion was clearly the greatest chess player in the world, but during that time he exhibited such willful and seemingly self-destructive behavior—refusing to enter crucial tournaments, quitting them for crankish reasons while holding a commanding lead, entertaining what many called a paranoid delusion that the whole world was plotting to keep him from reaching the top—that many informed experts wrote him off as a contender for the highest honors.

The boxing hall in the great complex of the Reichssportfeld was filled to capacity for the final bout in the light heavyweight division, and there were ranks of brown-uniformed storm-troopers lining each side of the aisle from the dressingrooms, forming an honour guard for the contenders as they came down to the ring.

Though he was used to Angie, who was surprisingly fast on her feet, this one was sprinting like an Olympic contender.

Of the thirty other runners, the most serious contenders were Camomile Lawn, a fleet chestnut mare so flashy Tab said she ought to wear an ankle bracelet, Male Nurse, a stocky brown gelding who jumped and stayed well, Yummy Yuppy, the handsome dark bay who had fallen last year, Blarney Stone, who had won the Irish Grand National, Paddywack, who was third to Penscombe Pride and The Prince of Darkness last year and Fraulein Mahler, Rannaldini's second horse, whom Lysander had ridden into the lake last summer.