All 9 Uses
contend
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(Edited)
- By this time the cries had ceased; but, as the party rushed up the first flight of stairs, two or more rough voices in angry contention were distinguished and seemed to proceed from the upper part of the house.
contention = argument
- Upon reaching the first landing, heard two voices in loud and angry contention--the one a gruff voice, the other much shriller--a very strange voice.
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- Heard the voices in contention.
- The time elapsing between the hearing of the voices in contention and the breaking open of the room door, was variously stated by the witnesses.
- Heard the voices in contention.
- They are puzzled, too, by the seeming impossibility of reconciling the voices heard in contention, with the facts that no one was discovered up stairs but the assassinated Mademoiselle L'Espanaye, and that there were no means of egress without the notice of the party ascending.
- "That the voices heard in contention," he said, "by the party upon the stairs, were not the voices of the women themselves, was fully proved by the evidence."
- Murder, then, has been committed by some third party; and the voices of this third party were those heard in contention.
- Besides, there were two voices heard in contention, and one of them was unquestionably the voice of a Frenchman.
Definitions:
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(1)
(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true
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(2)
(contend as in: She contended with it) to struggle or argue
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(3)
(contend as in: She contended for the gold medal) to compete
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)