contender

IPA: kʌntˈɛndɝ

Examples of "contender" in Sentences

Fernando Alonso expects Ferrari to be a title contender in 2012.
Even worse, he absolutely did not sound like a title contender on Sunday.
They're just not the type of franchise players a team can build a title contender around.
Well, its a tough one, but i feel Chelsea would be a title contender to ManU more than Man City.
Another title contender, Fernando Alonso, had his title hopes thwarted by his inability to pass Vitaly Petrov.
Busch was a title contender at the start of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, and he opened it tied with Harvick as the top seed.
It continued with the bizarre, as in why in the world did a title contender in Boston act like a small-market club in dealing its glue guy, Kendrick Perkins?
But three years after the arrival of Rivers, when Boston became a title contender by acquiring Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, Pierce was a fully formed star who helped win in a variety of ways.
But Tony Stewart proved Monday that everybody is a title contender when, days after crossing himself off a list of viable threats to win the championship, he snapped a 32-race winless streak with his victory at Chicago.