How to Use neck and neck in a Sentence

neck and neck

adverb or adjective

• Now, the Courage and Thorns are once again neck and neck in the standings.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2019
• And in our testing, the Air and 13-inch Pro were neck and neck for the most part.
  — Michael Andronico, CNN Underscored, 1 Apr. 2021
• Two skiers were neck and neck at the end, the crowd was going wild.
  — Sean Gregory/pyeongchang, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• At that time, Warren and Biden were neck and neck at 25% and 24%.
  — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2019
• The fight seemed neck and neck for a while until money came in the mix.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Even if the field winnows, the race appears neck and neck.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2020
• The two are neck and neck in a race to the rhetorical middle.
  — Faith Bottum, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
• The sparse polling on the race shows Mr. Caruso and Ms. Bass running neck and neck.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 3 June 2022
• The polls leading up to the election showed the blocs running neck and neck.
  — Vanessa Gera, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• Once, the teams were neck and neck, and my brother got a breakaway and scored.
  — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 7 July 2021
• Without Watson, that team might be neck and neck with the Jets and the Jaguars to pick No. 1.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• The two are neck and neck in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the state.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• But with less than three weeks until the Nov. 2 election, the race is neck and neck.
  — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Replay and TiVo were sort of neck and neck for a while.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 13 Sep. 2018
• There were two main parties in the country, and the parties were neck and neck.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Dec. 2020
• While the pair are neck and neck still though, Messi has achieved the feat in 155 fewer games.
  — SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Because with one month to go, observers say the race is still neck and neck.
  — Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Those two were neck and neck, but yes, the heat just got turned up in the oven for Thanksgiving.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• The two candidates were neck and neck for most of the evening as votes were tallied.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
• With 96% of precincts reporting, Buttigieg and Sanders are neck and neck.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
• Polls published ahead of the Jan. 26-27 runoff showed the contenders running neck and neck.
  — Michael Winfrey, Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Blankenship and McLaughlin had been neck and neck in camp.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2020
• The two sets played had to go into a tiebreaker, which was neck and neck the entire way.
  — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Because the Dodgers and Padres were supposed to be neck and neck all season.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• At the end of the day Oklahoma and Florida are neck and neck.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
• As far as rock & roll boogie bands go, next to AC/DC, those two are neck and neck.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Apr. 2020
• The presidential race is neck and neck, a toss-up, a dead heat.
  — Jack Schlossberg, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2024
• Milwaukee and Miami are neck and neck for the No. 7 seed in the East.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The stakes of the debate are enormous: Harris and Trump are neck and neck in the polls, and this event may be their only match-up of the cycle.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
• Harris and Trump are neck and neck in Arizona, polls show, with Trump slightly ahead in the latest surveys.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024