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Definition of the day : « contend »

  • verb compete, fight
  • verb argue
Example sentences :
  • You are your mother's girl, think what you will; and have violent spirits to contend with.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Having this matter attended to, there are other enemies with which we must contend.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various
  • They have to contend with the powers of darkness and the corruptions of nature.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • There are a lot of things to contend with at first; you won't enjoy it at all, to begin with.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Nor was this the only evil with which she had now to contend.
  • Extract from : « Theresa Marchmont » by Mrs Charles Gore
  • These were the very troops with whom at a later period we had to contend.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence » by William Lawrence
  • We do not say that art should be despised by the novelist; we only contend that it should not be polluted.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various
  • But to contend with a master of legions is ever an unequal struggle.
  • Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
  • For me to contend for the contrary, would be to contend with the wind.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • It is better not to contend, either with others or against our own body.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley