How to Use rivalrous in a Sentence

rivalrous

adjective

• That means turn off the TV, give their phone a rest, and even maintain some space between siblings if things tend to get rivalrous.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 18 May 2020
• His White House became one of the most rivalrous in history, chaotic and leak-prone.
  — Tevi Troy, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2021
• That quartet tracked the rivalrous friendship of two women, Lila and Lenù, from girlhood to old age, and seemed the sort of opus one writes to punctuate the end of a career.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
• As with many rivalrous neighbors, however, the root causes of the feud run far deeper.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Or when a rivalrous bet gone wrong resulted in a UK fan hopping in a pool in 40-degree weather.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 27 Nov. 2021
• The kings were a rivalrous bunch — each built his own city in a bid to outdo his predecessor — and Koh Ker’s pyramid is a mammoth version of Rong Chen.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• Xi Jinping, that appeared to ease the rancorous rhetoric between the two increasingly rivalrous economies, the world’s largest.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• But with the rivalrous spirit that has characterized the race to build a quantum computer, IBM cast doubt on Google’s claim.
  — Yaacov Benmeleh, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2020
• As such, those fatally rivalrous street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, have probably never loomed larger.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• There are 17 fiercely rivalrous contrade that ring Siena.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
• Highways are clearly rivalrous, as anyone who has been in a traffic jam can attest.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 June 2021
• But on campus, where students were studying Sunday for final exams, the news was greeted by many with rivalrous pride.
  — Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 1 May 2016
• The invasions of Greece by the Persians forced rivalrous city-states, even Athens and Sparta, to unite against an outsider, and the tenuous unity produced a miraculous win.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• But most of the series’ time is spent mining the power differentials among the (largely white) elite, from warring spouses to squabbling siblings to rivalrous besties.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
• After university, his rise was swift, and deeply alarming to a rivalrous father.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the notoriously rivalrous world of car design, there’s little agreement about what that soundscape should be.
  — Time, 6 Apr. 2021
• Many of the game's participants know members of the opposing team from other tournaments or showcases; that creates a bit of a rivalrous tone.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Easy enough for knights and their steeds to turn up as helicopters and corporate jets, and easy too for irascible media emperor Henry Dunbar and his rivalrous deputies to stand in for contentious king and court.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• But as was the rivalrous custom, their departments set up separate command centers, blocks from each other.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2020
• But the broader fact of the matter was that this was a watershed event for women’s basketball, a burgeoning that was far more important than any rivalrous sniping on Twitter.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The endeavor is the latest in China’s ambitious plans to expand its research in space, a rivalrous aspect of the U.S-China relationship.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• In Tasmania, the idea gradually turned into a bit of a joke: the island’s very own Bigfoot, with its own zany, rivalrous fraternities of seekers and true believers.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012
• The dissonance offers a glimpse of a rivalrous relationship.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
• That would appear to put the wheels in place for a rivalrous battle between household names who are polar opposites, allowing for two very different meditations on the nature of success.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
• These teams — there are precisely two in the series, vaguely rivalrous, unequally enlightened — are the tough who get going when the going gets too tough for the ordinary weapons and tactics of ordinary police officers.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Rather, they were lured ever deeper into the empire by rivalrous emperors and generals, who disbursed treasure (often gained from the plunder of Roman provinces) and ceded taxable land in return for military support.
  — Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
• In his dual roles with the Brigham and its parent company, Higgins will take on the wrenching challenge of unifying a sprawling system whose founding hospitals remain mostly separate and sometimes rivalrous more than 25 years after their merger.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• But, by dwelling on the rivalrous, often petty, personalities of all the participants, Ms. Hirshman effectively reduces the abolitionist movement to little more than a group of squabbling egotists.
  — Marc M. Arkin, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• The rivalrous duels between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson will forever be immortalized by basketball savants.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2017

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