Strive, contend

Usage examples of compete.

Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist continued to compete for the leadership and hated each other cordially.

Some of the finest sled dog racers are Athabascans from Alaska and the Yukon, yet most of them can no longer afford to compete in some of the top races.

My entrails dangling just inches above the water, so the Axumite marines could bet on the sharks competing for them.

I had a friend who competed and who made out very badly because you were using the Beeman machines.

Lacking a traditional organized crime network, it had become the battleground of a drug war among competing groups: Jamaicans, Haitians, New York elements, and home-grown Washingtonians competing for the lucrative trade to service the insatiable demand of the Beltway professionals.

So, after Class 22 had competed in jumping, and Hilary had most surprisingly won the little silver cup offered, Fatty, Bets and the rest moved off, accompanied by a suddenly cheerful Hilary.

VVhich aspects of the business are likely to remain proprietary9 When Quick Chek Food Stores wanted to create proprietary brands within its 100-plus stores, the concept was to compete with national brands.

As he watched, they roughly competed for castoff hunks of raw boar fat and bones.

The high-speed dash to Reagan International Airport and the equally fast helicopter flight to Chantilly had been a whirlwind of sights and sounds competing with his growing curiosity.

These two composers, the former male, the latter female, had competed with each other for court commissions for fifty years.

France, HBC retail store opens in Van- competes with HBC in Hudson couver.

The retailer competes for leisure time against other entertainment media, i.

Its hold on my English mind is a loaded model where B competes with, bests, and replaces A.

Inasmuch as most large concerns prosecute both an interstate and a domestic business, while the instrumentalities of interstate commerce and the pecuniary returns from such commerce are ordinarily property within the jurisdiction of some State or other, the task before the Court in drawing the line between the immunity claimed by interstate business on the one hand and the prerogatives claimed by local power on the other has at times involved it in self-contradiction, as successive developments have brought into prominence novel aspects of its complex problem or have altered the perspective in which the interests competing for its protection have appeared.

Human beings could not hope to compete with that type of organization any more than a back-room shop could compete with an automated cybernated factory.