contender

IPA: kʌntˈɛndɝ

Examples of "contender" in Sentences

He is currently a contender in the movie.
The other contender is the Antarctic krill.
A former contender of the Neotopian Joust tournament.
The contender with the most total points is the winner.
The candidate of the government party was the only contender.
Fernando Alonso expects Ferrari to be a title contender in 2012.
The object for the contender is to reach the Gladiator's platform.
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.