How to Use contract in a Sentence

contract

1 of 2 noun

• I tore up the contract.
• Have you signed the contract yet?
• The contract requires him to finish work by the end of the year.
• At the end of the year, Boyd and Higgins’ contracts will be up.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• The length of the contract (seven years) is a surprise.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• Winning the fight may not be enough alone to get the contract.
  — Robert Rimpson, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
• And has done it in the first year of a three-year, $20.4 million contract.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Blazers thought enough of Williams to sign him to a two-way contract.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2022
• The contract for the race, which took place June 1-3, expired this year.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2018
• The Heat signed Mills to a minimum contract for the rest of the season.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• The union has agreed to extend the contract to July 12.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The move allows the Lions to prorate that cap hit over the life of the contract.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
• Pai Yang sold the business to 5xen through a land contract.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
• Crossroads has signed contracts through the end of this year.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Dan Devine has one more year to go on a five-year contract.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• Harper joined the Knicks in June on a two-way contract.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 18 Dec. 2020
• The agreement for painters makes clear that the use of aerosol paint is covered by the contract.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
• With that in mind, here's a look at the ten worst contracts in world football.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2019
• But that search has been slow to start, and the school board has yet to approve a contract with a search firm.
  — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• The Sixers free themselves of a large contract and a bad fit.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• At the time, Friedgen had three years left on his contract.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Both sides need to find common ground on the length and value of the contract, one source added.
  — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Westbrook is not worth the headache or the ridiculous contract.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• So this, so this contract that the board or that the port’s moving forward on will.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• The mantle then contracts, which excretes waste from the squid’s body.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• At least a quarter of those plan to move to contract nursing.
  — Lauren Coleman-Lochner, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• He was placed on leave after the crash, and his contract expired.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2021
• Mingo signed a one-year contract with the Falcons in March.
  — Christian Ortega, USA TODAY, 10 July 2021
• The deal is the largest in baseball history, though most of the money is deferred until after the contract ends.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• After the team and stadium filed their lawsuit, the city put the project up for bid, which resulted in Fisher still winning the contract.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024

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contract

2 of 2 verb

• The muscle expands and then contracts.
• The hot metal contracted as it cooled.
• She contracted her lips into a frown.
• But those ranks are sure to contract in the coming years.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2022
• In a sense, perhaps, in that the world begins to contract.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• My fear with a strike is that things are going to contract.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• The heat causes all the fibers in the denim to contract, making the pair smaller.
  — Rachel Bogo, Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2019
• When wrapped around a suspect’s arm and chest, the tubes would swell and contract with the motion of their heart.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• Martin was not one of the six players to contract the virus.
  — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2021
• Once the stomach muscles won’t contract, the set is over.
  — Boris Abrams, GQ, 17 May 2018
• And as more people contract it, the odds of new variants rise.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021
• One was the True Knot contracting measles from one of their victims.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• As a result, the children were turned over to the people who contracted them out to the egg farm.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• There is still plenty of risk for those who contract the virus.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2021
• That rollout will say a lot about how the virus spreads and whether the economy will contract again.
  — Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2020
• Much more settled is that most kids who contract Covid-19 don’t get that sick.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• The foreskin is thought to increase the risk of contracting HIV for two reasons.
  — Jenni Singer, Parents, 19 July 2023
• Two of the six contracted the disease outside of the clinic.
  — Nick Powell, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• These chemicals cause the blood vessels and muscles in the uterus to contract.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 May 2022
• As the bones contract, small screws are released inside her legs.
  — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• The idea is to stop spread of the virus by protecting anyone who might be at risk of contracting it.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 June 2018
• The risk of contracting it is smaller than that of being involved in a car crash.
  — Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News, 8 Sep. 2017
• Many people who contract the virus lose their senses of taste and smell.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• Of those who contract West Nile virus, only one in five have any symptoms.
  — Soumya Karlamanglastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• And on top of all that there's the changing seasons, which expand and contract those habitats.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• It is spread through bites or scratches, and humans can contract it.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2021
• Trump is far from the first world leader to contract coronavirus.
  — NBC news, 2 Oct. 2020
• Here’s the long list of the various diseases humans can contract from ticks.
  — Kate Sheridan, SELF, 14 July 2018
• Mothers in their third trimester of pregnancy should also get vaccinated to avoid contracting pertussis and spreading it to their newborn.
  — Keri Brenner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Magnesium also keeps muscles like the heart contracting properly.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024