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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • With just days until the election, Harris and Trump are neck and neck.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Trump and Harris, meanwhile, are running neck and neck in most of the swing states that will decide the election, polls show.
    Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,brian Schwartz,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024

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