How to use competing in a sentence

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• There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.From the entry groceries
• I'm competing in two dressages and a jumping show this weekend.From the entry dressage
• Among competing products, a generic substitute is one thing, whereas a deceptive lookalike is another.From the entry lookalike
• The competing sprinters were divided into several flights.From the entry flight
• A long time union member himself, Phil showed solidarity with the picketing grocery store workers by shopping at a competing, unionized store.From the entry solidarity
• Should you EDC a bit kit? It may depend on your occupation and on what else is competing to earn a place in your sheath.From the entry EDC
• When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).From the entry interest
• So we're competing with a somewhat different product — news programming as opposed to news wheels.2023, Johnston Carla Brooks, Winning the Global TV News Game. From the entry news wheel
• Few brands have been tussled over as hard by competing subcultures.2020 October 4, Nosheen Iqbal, “Fashion … or fascist? The long tussle over that Fred Perry logo”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry rudeboy
• We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst.2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient…. From the entry brutish
• Competing multiquasiparticle configurations are found to contribute to a rich variety of collective phenomena in this nucleus..2016, A. D. Ayangeakaa, U. Garg, C. M. Petrache, S. Guo, P. W. Zhao, J. T. Matta, B. K. Nayak, D. Patel, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P.…. From the entry multiquasiparticle
• Do these two images represent the two competing monkhoods: the village dwelling monks and the forest mendicants?2014, Geok Goh, The Wheel-Turner and His House: Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene, page 116. From the entry monkhood
• “We have no outstanding man.” ¶ When Mitchell was competing the Americans had a teamful.2014 January 5, John Powers, “US figure skaters aren’t expected to be forces in Sochi: Americans are slipping”, in The Boston Globe. From the entry teamful
• One former winner hung up his braffin aged eighty-eight after seven decades of competing.2012, Jane Peyton, Brilliant Britain. From the entry braffin
• The competing hypotheses of simple and complex urbilaterians are still being debated at the time of writing.2011, Wallace Arthur, Evolution: A Developmental Approach, unnumbered page. From the entry urbilaterian
• Already we've seen early hallmarks of the twentieth century: colonial decay, cultural appropriation, and competing trademarks.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima
• It Includes poems by Elizabeth, who had to keep control of her courtful of poetically competing males.2010, Ruth Padel, Sir Walter Ralegh, Faber & Faber, →ISBN. From the entry courtful
• In this story they are just another race competing for limited resources.2010 May 6, Yisroel Markov, “Kvetching About Wives”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jan 2026. From the entry Mordorian
• I'm not sitting waiting to take over, competing for his office." So no Brown-Blair shenanigans?2009 November 1, Camilla Long, “Come join me in the doghouse: Vince Cable was the sage of the credit crunch but these days his calls are…. From the entry Shrekky
• Modern capital markets mediate competing claims for money and power among governments and businesses, savers and borrowers.2007, Joseph Benning, “The Politics of Finance”, in Trading Strategies for Capital Markets, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry coin of the realm
• The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors…. From the entry panarchy
• I think market forces might help -- competing poker televisors offering incentives to play in their events.2004 February 18, wrap, “to Erik Seidel”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026. From the entry televisor
• Competing growth is removed around 34 melliferous plant species at field edges and in neighboring woodlands.1999, Kenneth W. Mudge, Eric B[arton] Brennan, “Clonal Propagation of Multipurpose and Fruit Trees Used in Agroforestry”, in Louise…. From the entry melliferous
• VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says.1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 03…. From the entry VOIP
• The sixteenth-century print at the left shows an abacist competing against an algorist.1992, Albert B. Bennett, Leonard T. Nelson, Mathematics for elementary teachers: a conceptual approach, page 67. From the entry algorist
• "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters.1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259. From the entry pipe
• One of the major differences between the Nasdaq exchange and the NYSE is Nasdaq’s structure of competing market makers.2023, Troy Adair, John Nofsinger, Foundations of Investments, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry NASDAQ
• Now, maybe you see this as sort of an obvious and opportunistic publicity play by a competing social-media service.2022 November 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh”, in The Atlantic. From the entry opportunistic
• Specifically, I propose that frictions in hacker- and makerspaces relate to competing values such as inclusivity and fairness versus "do-ocratic" tendencies.2022, Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld, Renée van de Vall, editors, Engaged Humanities: Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life, Amsterdam…. From the entry do-ocratic
• From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain.2020, Alexis Soloski, “‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough”, in The New York Times. From the entry seek for
• Robinson is a self proclaimed car lover, competing in 'banger racing' competitions with team mates he calls 'the bomb squad'.2019 October 24, Jamie Johnson, “Lorry driver arrested over the death of 39 migrants 'passed out' when he discovered his human cargo, it's…. From the entry banger racing
• The biggest have become deal powerhouses, capable of competing with global banks and private-equity firms on big transactions.2018 December 15, “Family offices become financial titans. The growing ranks of billionaires' in-house investment teams”, in The Economist. From the entry family office
• They did nothing decisive to save the ecospherre, as everything had to be balanced to appease competing interests.2015, John Joseph Adams, Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction, →ISBN. From the entry lateralism
• In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.2014, Ian Hodder, Archaeological Theory Today. From the entry jargon
• You can’t reduce the competition when nobody is competing!2014 June 1, “Net Neutrality”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry monopoly
• Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times. From the entry eventing
• Not as dramatic as on a stormclouded day, for it would be competing with the brightness of the sun.1988, Dean R[ay] Koontz, chapter 12, in Lightning, London: Guild Publishing, →OCLC, page 271. From the entry stormclouded
• Missionary activity may occur interdenominationally or intradenominationally between competing persuasions advocating different degrees of religiosity or variant belief systems.1974, B. Zvi Sobel, Hebrew Christianity: The Thirteenth Tribe, page 347. From the entry intradenominationally
• These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations.1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 1. From the entry discountenance
• Berg has been trying to find out why we abandoned our intention of competing for the Government prize."1910, Victor Appleton, Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat, page 70. From the entry compete

Meaning of competing

1. adjective Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).

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Questions about competing in a sentence

How do you use competing in a sentence?

Competing is used as an adjective. For example: “There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.”

What is a short sentence with competing?

“The competing sprinters were divided into several flights.”

What does competing mean?

Competing means being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).