How to Use contestant in a Sentence

contestant

noun

• The contestant who catches the most fish wins.
• The winning contestants will receive a cash prize.
• Wait, do the Love Is Blind contestants have to pay for their own weddings?
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 24 Oct. 2024
• For the first time, each episode featured a completely new round of masked celebs with only one contestant moving forward by the end of the hour.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• During her impressive run, Schneider won the most games of any woman or transgender contestant in the show’s long history.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• In the semifinals, three remaining singers participate in a battle where one contestant will be eliminated.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
• Per the show's tradition, the contestants will don their finest formalwear to hash out the most recent installment of the popular reality dating series.
  — Catherine Santino, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
• Participants were prohibited from taking pictures on set, and the production crew even pasted stickers on the contestants’ phone cameras.
  — Regina Kim, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• And the longer the contestants sashay the more the room urges them to greatness.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
• There were behind-the-scenes looks at the contestants’ lives.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Even if a lot of the contestants turned up the melodrama to a hundred.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• The crunch of its tortilla held up far better, and the molten cheese gave this contestant the edge.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The top 8 contestants were slimmed down to the top 5 when viewers’ votes were tallied and revealed at the end of the show.
  — USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The contestants, all between the ages of 8 and 13, laugh at the father-daughter antics on the stage.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• So, contestants, 97 billion U.S. dollars is the stat of the week.
  — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
• For the first seven weeks, the contestants on The Block 2023 were firmly split into two groups.
  — Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• Bo is clearly on the chopping block for many of the younger contestants, but Rose’s name comes up, too.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
• Some of them have been caught on camera yelling racist taunts at Black and Asian contestants.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The winner of each game receives three points, and the second-place contestant gets one.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• These contestants are in the early days of their careers.
  — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
• In fact all the contestants should have some similar kind of shtick, just as many teams do in dugouts.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• James Barfield, the home cook from Portland, and the rest of the contestants were challenged to make cakes (though some were pies, which makes the episode title seem weird).
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2023
• Five of the contestants said they were then photographed topless.
  — Niniek Karmini, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• The show’s contestants will be revealed at a later date.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
• The 22-year-old singer broke the news as she was supposed to duet with another contestant, Fire.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• All the contestants, 500 of us, performed behind a screen.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• And much like the contestants on Naked Attraction, the companies were laid bare for all to see.
  — Sal Gentile, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• Six contestants are from the state of New York and four are from California.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• Emma Stone has been applying to be a contestant on Jeopardy! for years and has yet to make the cut.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
• Plus, just look at all the great first-time contestants (Parvati, Penner, Ozzy, Yul).
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024