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We suitors shall have to contend for it with might and main, for we shall find it no light matter to string such a bow as this is.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contend
 v.  strive in opposition; contest; dispute; struggle for
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  But, instead of manifesting an intention to contend with the successful marksman, he stood leaning on his rifle for more than a minute, like a man who was completely buried in thought.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
2  But Hawkeye, whose duty led him foremost in the adventure, knew the character of those with whom he was about to contend too well to trust the treacherous quiet.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
3  I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The thought of leaving my friends was decidedly the most painful thought with which I had to contend.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The first difficulty which we had to contend with was the finding of this American's antecedents.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
6  His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled expression of passion, in which pride seemed to contend with irresolution.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  The only thing he had to contend with was the colliers setting snares for rabbits, particularly the Stacks Gate colliers, on the Marehay side.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  They have no difficulties to contend with at home, no opposition, no caprice, no delays.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torches.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
11  Villefort ceased to contend; he only groaned.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 80. The Accusation.
12  In each there was an enemy to contend with, and contributions to be levied.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
13  The love with which his young wife had inspired him was a secondary sentiment, and was not strong enough to contend with the primitive feelings we have just enumerated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
14  But this time she had to contend with an unpolished nature, concentrated and insensible by force of austerity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
15  We suitors shall have to contend for it with might and main, for we shall find it no light matter to string such a bow as this is.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXI
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
2  It is time, once again, to contend with racism.
3  The firm is too small to contend against large international companies.
4  At the age of nine, he had the death of both parents to contend with.
5  They have to contend against draught every year.
6  Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
7  One participant involved in training said people here have low self-esteem and must contend with almost daily harassment.
8  John has to contend with great difficulties in coming IELTS test.
9  Meanwhile, In Russia, hardliners contend that their nation should rely more on nuclear weapons to offset NATO's superiority in conventional military forces and to cope with the U.S. missile defense program, now creeping toward Russia's borders.
10  Immediately you see these symptoms that ferret from the others, as this is, I think, the worst disease one has to contend with.
11  They have also had to contend with a split shift that requires them to drive routes in the morning and evening with no pay in between.
12  Our football team is contending with one from the next town for the championship.
13  There are three world - class tennis players contending for this title.
14  Guthrie has argued for an Orphic-Pythagorean identity, contending that they contain ideas identical to Orphic teachings.
15  British Columbia needs to produce more food while contending with rising seas, diminishing water resources and changing patterns of rain and drought.