9 sentences with 'compete'
Example sentences and phrases with the word compete and other words derived from it.
• « Jon, a 28-year-old American, was about to enter the finals of the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and compete for one of the most prestigious prizes in music. »
• « Over the centuries, poor farmers found it increasingly difficult to hold on to their land, both because they could not compete with the huge slave plantations of the rich and because of outright extortion. »
• « It was illegal to try to compete with the imperial silk industry, so the huge profits went straight into the royal treasury. »
• « In the mid-15th century, northern manufacturing also began to compete with Italian production. »
• « The ruthless corollary was that, when the sultan died, his sons would compete to win court and military command, and that the winner would have his brothers killed to eliminate his rivals and consolidate power. »
• « Although Portugal had enjoyed a (relatively brief) period of ascendancy beginning with the remarkable voyage of Vasco Da Gama in the 15th century, it could not compete with the better-funded and better-equipped forces of the Netherlands and Britain, so most Portuguese colonies and trading posts were eventually lost to their rivals. »