COMPETITOR in a Sentence

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She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPETITOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
competitor
 n.  one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival
Classic Sentence:
1  I will suffer no competitor near the throne; I shall exact an undivided homage: his devotions shall not be shared between me and the shape he sees in his mirror.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  'So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,' she pursued.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
3  Roused to nervous desire to regain her position she turned on Dr. Terry Gould, the young and pool-playing competitor of her husband.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  But when ladylike airs failed to get results she was coldly businesslike and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it would bring her a new customer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  More than thirty yeomen at first presented themselves as competitors, several of whom were rangers and under-keepers in the royal forests of Needwood and Charnwood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  It is true that there was not quite fair play between them and their competitors in trade.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  That company is a strong competitor of us.
2  Electron Instruments believed its desktop SEM was vastly superior to the next best alternative from a Japanese competitor.
3  The merchant thought of his competitor as interloper who was stealing away his trade.
4  She was the only British competitor apart from Richard Meade.
5  Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
6  We're playing a losing game by trying to undercut our competitor's prices all the time.
7  Japan's ancient sport sumo is again fighting to salvage its reputation after a top-ranking wrestler seriously injured a fellow competitor in an alcohol-fuelled attack.
8  The firm will be able to undercut its competitors whilst still making a profit.
9  The Japanese company is light years ahead of its European competitors.
10  The company has no serious competitors in this area.
11  The bank isn't performing as well as some of its competitors.
12  The track star outran all of his competitors.
13  The next version of the software will have the edge over its competitors.
14  The company does not yet have the global reach of its bigger competitors.
15  Their prices compare favourably with those of their competitors.