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How to use prize in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Prize means that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. Example: “He was a prize fool.”

Examples of prize by meaning

verbTo move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

  • ‘Find some other black boxes to prize open.’2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 298

adjectiveHaving won a prize; award-winning.

  • a prize vegetable

adjectiveFirst-rate; exceptional.

  • He was a prize fool.

More sentences with prize

  • Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.From the entry last
  • There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.From the entry bingo
  • There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal.From the entry sighting
  • I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.From the entry emotional
  • They gave him a cash award, in lieu of the promised prize package.From the entry in lieu of
  • The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy.From the entry trophy
  • Our reporters do some of the best reporting you'll find anywhere, and some have won Pulitzer prizes.From the entry reporting
  • The first successful solver of the puzzle will win a prize.From the entry solver
  • The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize.From the entry unfairly
  • Cracker Jack prizes and CD covers often have lenticular images on them.From the entry lenticular image
  • The grand prize on the game show was a brand new Cadillac.From the entry grand prize
  • You get no prize for guessing what happened when the spider landed on her plate.From the entry no prize for guessing
  • She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.From the entry yamstick
  • After six weeks of incorrect competition entries, the prize was still unwon.From the entry unwon
  • John has just notched up another "salesman of the month" prize.From the entry notch up
  • By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.From the entry pianist
  • The only scientist to have won three Nobel prizes.From the entry only
  • The car quickly became his most prized possession.From the entry possession
  • "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.From the entry construction
  • The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.From the entry flatten
  • Whichever of you gets here first will get the prize.From the entry whichever
  • After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.From the entry revenge
  • Collect five promotional vouchers to claim your prize.From the entry promotional
  • The horse came to hand, and won first prize.From the entry come to hand
  • I've made a prize fool of myself.From the entry make a fool of
  • She beat out three other contenders to claim the prize.From the entry beat out
  • The raffler announced the prizes over the loudspeaker.From the entry raffler
  • This is a satellite tournament. The prize pool consists of 18 entries to a tournament with a more expensive buy-in.From the entry prize pool
  • See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.From the entry see
  • For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize.From the entry goldfish
  • His prized possession was his child.From the entry prized
  • The winner of our trivia game here tonight will receive a prize of a million dollars. Just kidding! It's a fifty-dollar gift card.From the entry just kidding
  • It's a done deal — he already sold me the prize wine bottle from his collection, and I already popped the cork.From the entry done deal
  • His prized laceleaf maple stood neglected.From the entry laceleaf
  • We mostly talked about his mother's illness, but he told me in passing that he'd won a small prize in the lottery.From the entry in passing
  • The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.From the entry coal
  • Asphyxiating arches catch the breath And numb the senses of all who sought the lost prize.2024, Nishant Gang, It Happens: Navigating Life's Unpredictable Journey, page 25. From the entry asphyxiating

Meaning of prize

  1. noun That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  2. noun Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
  3. noun An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

Full definition of prize

Questions about prize in a sentence

How do you use prize in a sentence?
Prize is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He was a prize fool.”
What is a short sentence with prize?
“a prize vegetable”
What does prize mean?
Prize means that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prize (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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