What is "contestants"

Usage examples of "contestants".

The contestants are seated on either side of a big table in the center of the room, and each contestant has three waiters.

In that event, assuming that rescue is possible, all three contestants will be removed from the course.

As contestants under extraordinary license, you are entitled to no direct awards, but your scores will be duly reported to the Zaroth Casino and the Mazeway Syndicate.

Pietro, so that you might meet some of my contestants at firsthand, the better to assist them as they go about their work for me.

Azzie made a short speech congratulating his contestants, driving home the premise of his play by pointing out that they had done well by simply going about their natural pursuits.

The last Reds have now stumbled from the field and a new troupe comes out, Blacks and Greys this time Scop notices, taller, stronger, more richly attired contestants than those they have succeeded.

There will be a brief pause between contestants, in order to permit the judge to make his notes and also to prepare himself psychologically and medically for the next contestant.

And between contestants, the transmitter of the breath will be disinfected by a registered trained nurse with Listerine, so that there may be no build-up, or cumulative effect.

From my seat behind the screens I was not supposed to be able to see the contestants, but as they approached the steps to the platform I did so, and Number One was a gangling youth who had put on his best suit for this public appearance.

There had been seventeen contestants, avid for the Halitosis Crown, and by the time the puffing was completed, what with the ceremonial manner in which the man in shirtsleeves brought each one to the chair of trial, and the fuss that the phony nurse made in cleansing the megaphone, the platform reeked of Listerine, and I doubt if the Giant Blunderbore, after a heavy meal of human flesh, could have penetrated it with his dreadful breath.

I had flattered everybody -- the contestants, the organizer, and the audience.

No, I can assure you that all the contestants, in so far as I may judge from what I have been able to experience of them, are in good health.