How to Use contend in a Sentence

contend

verb

• These people contend that they have earned the right to the land.
• The team is expected to contend for the championship this year.
• These kinds of legal tools can be empowering for voters of color in all states, voting rights advocates contend.
  — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
• While these lights will give you that old-fashioned Christmas look, there are often issues to contend with over time, like flickering bulbs or sections that burn out.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2022
• Trump supporters will contend that his cultural conservatism and promise of a better economy helped turn the tide.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
• My hope is that without future time jumps to contend with, the showrunners will spend more time on character development for people like Rhaenys.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• Straus contends that the Nature Conservancy’s goal is to remove all of the dairies and ranches from the park by buying out their leases.
  — Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
• The Graff family has had to contend with antisemitism, but Gray doesn’t back off from depicting their own prejudices.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2022
• The Nets roster wasn’t built to contend unless Simmons returns to All-Star form, which hasn’t happened.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• California residents have had to contend with the highest gas prices in the country, and oil refinery shutdowns have been named as the primary cause.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2022
• The question of the next generation’s relationship with luxury watches is no longer a future subject to contend with.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2022
• He has also again been forced to contend with new allegations regarding his ties to white nationalist and antisemitic figures in and around his campaign.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 4 Nov. 2022
• Advocates of the water-stress hypothesis still need to contend with other explanations, Dr. Naudé said.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• It is based in part, on grounds that charges in the indictment are unconstitutional since the charges are based on the exit tax regime which Ver contends is itself unconstitutional.
  — Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Departments, however, contend that the disparities are more likely to be fueled by factors outside of a deputy’s control, like homelessness and mental illness.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• If the Cubs are serious about contending in 2025, Miller and Langeliers seem like savvy additions.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• In rewriting the past, Putin has to contend with the present.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 9 May 2022
• At the same time, there is all that fat to contend with.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• The metro will have some new snow to contend with, as well.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
• Do the Jazz need to make a trade to contend for a title?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2021
• This might be the time for the Jazz to vault from the fringes of contending to the foreground.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• Now the world is contending with the worst oil shock in years.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• For much of the last decade, households around the world have had to contend with it.
  — Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
• And many of them will contend with the kinds of problems that have plagued Zeiger.
  — Jim Rendon, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
• This is the last thing a team struggling to break out of a deep funk needs to contend with.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Many came dressed in costumes, and all had to contend with new snow on the ground.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2021
• But during the day, there were no such crowds to contend with.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2021
• All of this matters for a team that is on the cusp of contending again.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The city of Vallejo now has a new lawsuit to contend with.
  — Sean Dooley, ABC News, 3 June 2021
• Thus, Bryant contends the House case is not an engine of progress.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024