All 10 Uses
contend
in
The Contender, by Lipsyte
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- It's not easy trying to become a contender.
Chpt 3 *contender = contestant (competitor) for a prize
- You have to start by wanting to be a contender, the man coming up, the man who knows there's a good chance he'll never get to the top, the man who's willing to sweat and bleed to get up as high as his legs and his brains and his heart will take him.†
Chpt 3
- You have to start by wanting to be a contender.†
Chpt 4
- For a while I was rated the Number Seven light-heavyweight contender.†
Chpt 7
- If ...if I had wanted to, would I have ...you know, been a contender?†
Chpt 12
- A contender, that you have to do yourself.†
Chpt 12
- He had a fight with a top contender, an Italian kid, and lost.†
Chpt 14
- The next day, in the papers, the contender said he won because he sang along with opera.†
Chpt 14
- Remember what you said that night ....about being a ....a contender?†
Chpt 18
- You took me this far, you told me all that stuff about being a contender, and you ain't quitting on me now, not when I got a chance to find out, my last chance—†
Chpt 19
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)