Definition: 1. Maintain or assert. 2. Have an argument about something. 3. To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation. 4. Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. 5. Come to terms or deal successfully with.
Use 'contend' in a sentence:
1. An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.
2. The two nations have been contending about the rights to deep-sea fishing in their waters.
3. They have to contend against draught every year.
4. It has to contend with pirates at sea and armed groups on land.
5. Africa would also have to contend with huge economic losses.
6. Sisters contended about silly trifles.
7. He contended against his own fate.
8. We have had to contend with the disinterest of much of the medical profession about this topic.
9. Some industry members contend that having 50 different sets of rules, licensing fees and even definitions of "medical practice" makes less sense in the era of telemedicine and is hampering its growth.
10. And now we have another great global contagion to contend with.
11. The firm is too small to contend against large international companies.
12. While Barak didn't agree with this view, he had to contend with it.
13. He contended that there must be life on Mars.
14. Some researchers contend that sleep plays no role in the consolidation of declarative memory (i.e., memory involving factual information).
15. There was a new problem to contend with.
16. The government contends that he is fundamentalist.
17. The euro zone also has financial imbalances to contend with.
18. A hundred schools of thought contend.
19. The firm is too small to contend against [ with] large international companies.
20. The firm is too small to contend against [with] large international companies.
21. She had to contend with day care for her 2-year-old twins being cancelled.
22. He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
23. When a marriage ends, the former husband and wife often contend over the children.
24. I have to contend with difficulties.
25. This is the development in education that we have to contend with.
26. Every animal has its peculiarities that you have to contend with.
27. American businesses could soon have a new kind of lawsuit to contend with.
28. That's the challenge that traditional luxury brands will have to contend with in the mid-to long-term future.
29. I would contend that unemployment is the most serious social problem today.
30. We try to make the trains run on time, but we can't contend against the weather.
31. They had to contend against drought.
32. 'You were just looking,' contends Samantha. 'I was the one doing all the work.'
33. Anyone actually venturing into the sea will have to contend with sharks, stinging jellyfish and surfboarders.
34. Some scientists contend that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like a warm-blooded mammal's than a cold-blooded reptile's.
35. Hunt and Lipo contend that moai-building was an activity that helped keep the peace between islanders.
36. We contend that the second example is more consumable.
37. Then there is the rivalry between India and Pakistan to contend with.
38. Our football team is contending with one from the next town for the championship.
39. It is the principle I contend for, not individual or private benefit.
40. He contended that it was true.
41. Columbus contended that the earth was round.
42. Edon had to contend against the world's best runners in the games, and did well to come third.
43. More recently, he has had to contend with thorny personnel issues.
44. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
45. It is time, once again, to contend with racism.
46. The fairy king and queen were contending over possession of the beautiful boy.
47. Modern European states, they contend, appeared after the Renaissance through the rise of nations.
48. They contend that the company failed to disclose material information.
49. We contended that every college student must have a command of a foreign language.
50. Nurses often have to contend with violent or drunken patients.
51. The competitors had to contend with squally weather conditions.
52. I would contend that the minister's thinking is flawed on this point.
