How to Use beauty contest in a Sentence

beauty contest

noun

• But, again, our hope is to not have to rely on a beauty contest.
  — Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Just then the Ladies Day beauty contest was about to begin.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Town & Country, 6 Apr. 2018
• Here’s the twist: this peasant dish won’t win a beauty contest.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• The alt-universe Yeoh in question then does not enter a beauty contest and win.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2022
• The incident led her to enter a beauty contest in hopes of being able to leave Guyana.
  — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
• The incident led her to enter a beauty contest in hopes of being able to leave Guyana.
  — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Foreman was crowned Miss Texas in a year in which, for the first time, the titles for all five top beauty contests have been won by black women.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2019
• The image shows a Ukrainian soldier who won a beauty contest in 2016.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2022
• But most important is the beauty contest aspect to the Heisman.
  — oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
• Her face often falls back into the wide smile of the past, when her mother enrolled her in local beauty contests.
  — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Away from the beauty contest, there were camel races, exhibitions, sculptures and stalls selling camel milk and meat.
  — Richard Hall, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2018
• Dozens of camels barred from competing in Saudi Arabia beauty contest over use of Botox.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• The crowning of Miss World 2019 has closed out this year’s historic pageant circuit, marking the first time the titles for all five top beauty contests were won by black women.
  — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2019
• Bay Hill would lose a beauty contest to the iconic, scenic gem nearly 2,800 miles away on Monterey Peninsula.
  — Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2022
• And does birthplace play a major role in your likelihood of winning a beauty contest?
  — Lea Lane, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• The pageant is watched every year by millions of people in France and is the oldest-running beauty contest in the country, according to the pageant’s website.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• For the second year in a row, Austin outshines Dallas-Fort Worth in a long-running real estate beauty contest.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2020
• With most teams playing no nonconference games at all, the whole CFP is more of a staged beauty contest than ever before.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
• But the harsh reality is that,the whole concept of the pitch is contrived, and client and agencies are kept apart, and, as a result, the pitch becomes a superficial beauty contest.
  — Avi Dan, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Organizers of the event set up a dog obstacle course, pet beauty contests and the diving pool for visitors.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Arrigo had hopes for Amazon and its HQ2 beauty contest.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• New research confirms that such online platforms are, in part, beauty contests.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2019
• College football isn’t a beauty contest, and it’s not supposed to be about TV ratings, star power or name recognition.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 4 Dec. 2022
• Here’s the truth: The four-team Playoff has always been a beauty contest, not a reward for winning a particular number of games or even a conference.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
• Nightclubs, orchestras and beauty contests were among the novelties the British introduced to Iraq.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• John Maynard Keynes, a canny investor as well as a famous British economist, wrote in 1936 that the stock market resembles a beauty contest, with a twist.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• And even though Burrow has outplayed Jackson this season, the Pro Bowl is basically a beauty contest.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• Carlson has indicated that changes are in store and has not ruled out eliminating the swimsuit portion of the pageant, which began as a bathing-beauty contest on the Boardwalk.
  — Amy S. Rosenberg, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Dimpled and discolored, the grapefruits are not winning any beauty contests.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2019
• The Playoff is, by design, a beauty contest and not a tournament that hands out automatic tickets.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024