The events of the last two days must have made such an impression on your mind that even the most remarkable incidents of your life could not compete with.
Neither in the number of known species of larvæ, nor in the intimate knowledge of their mode of life, can any of the remaining orders of insects compete with the Lepidoptera.
The transmutation must always keep pace with the change in the conditions of life, since if the latter change more rapidly the species could not compete with rival species--it would become extinct.
No amount of training would make a Normandy dray horse that could compete with a Kentucky thoroughbred on the race course.
It was to his advantage to keep the labor market open to all who might wish to compete for employment, since this would tend to force wages down and thus give him the benefit of high prices.
The essential fact, everywhere to be observed in the development of constitutional government, is the rise to political power of classes which compete with the King and with each other for the control of the state.
This is the stronghold of the art; and whenever it has been abandoned in modern times to compete with copper-plate engraving, in point of delicacy or mere difficulty of execution, the result has been a failure.
It is not every one who will care to compete with these gentlemen in making lofty ascents; and it is not probable that they had any merely ambitious motives in undertaking to soar so high.
Besides, Elizabeth knows Elly cannot compete in dress and all the furbelows, as our Lizzie does.
We could not well dispense with railways, and yet there is no denying that they are monopolies, that labor cannot compete with them, and that they impose a heavy tax on labor.
The only author who can in the least compete with him in fecundity is Ibid.
Shall they compete with him who wrote "Maltravers," Prologue to "Alice or the Mysteries?
But, except for their zeal in the cause of letters, amidst the dissipations of a court, they have no pretensions to competewith some of the obscure poets to whom we owe the romances of chivalry.
The Portuguese Gil Vicente may perhaps compete with Torres Naharro for the honour of leading the dramatists of the peninsula.
His elegies are such as may compete with Tibullus.
Condorcet did not actually compete for the prize, but he wrote a very acute piece, suggested by the theme, which was printed in 1790.
No master of a craft may require his apprentice to make an oath not to compete with him by setting up a shop after the term of his apprenticeship.
Manufacturing in the American colonies that would compete with British industry was suppressed by Great Britain.
No ladies can rival him in repartee, much less compete with him in poetry, so they were all afraid of him, but [this evening] he did not give a cup to any particular lady to make her compose poems.
They seem to be living an idle poetic life, but if they were to compete with us, it is not necessarily certain they would be superior, though no one knows them well.
To compete with the service that the Armstrong rendered the R.
Indeed, for a considerable time thereafter it endeavored to compete against the railroad--but with a sense of growing hopelessness.
I can't compete with Miss Pao, in connection with whom something or other about gold or about jade is mentioned.
The maidens try with profuse show tocompete in their spring head-dress.
He "deprecated the taking of any steps, if it might merely mean that the manufacturer who now competes with you from a distance would transfer his activities to India and compete with you within your boundaries.
They were also, with the Parsees, the first Indians to send their sons to England for education, to qualify for the Bar, or to compete for the higher grades of the Civil and Medical services.
I cannot compete with lords, Clementina,--a poor barrister without a brief.
I doubt it very much: I consider that the sooner other countries are enabled to compete with us to a certain extent, the better it will be for England.
It is from these causes that has arisen what I have called the English feeling, for display beyond the means, and which has made our countrymen look down upon those who cannot compete with them in expense.
But while the tail and blood fell to the king, the neighbouring village of the Subura, which no doubt once had a similar ceremony of its own, was gratified by being allowed to compete for the prize of the horse's head.
Some chiefs allowed no one else to compete with them, lest a successful Rain-maker should be chosen as chief.
My former self was addressing me across the sea in this strange, uninviting, big town where I was compelled to peddle shoe-black or oil-cloth and to compete with a yelling idiot.
They had a number of heiresses to compete with I was too conspicuous a figure in the needle industries for my name to be unknown to the guests of a hotel like the Rigi Kulm House.
His admiration for this artist's talent led him to paint in 1872 a canvas called Parisiennes Habillees en Algeriennes, an ambitious essay to compete with Les Femmes d'Alger dans Leur Appartement.
The diversity of his pursuits, which sprang from a desire to competewith Leonardo da Vinci, smacks of the dilettante.
Millions of my country-women would competefor that distinction.
Nor do I know any study which can compete with mathematics in general in furnishing matter for severe and continued thought.
He thought them, after only eighteen months' training, one of the best boy-battalions in the department, and would have liked to take them to Paris to competefor the athletic prizes.
Giovanni, he represented a colonnade so beautiful, and well adapted to produce illusion, as to compete with the best specimens from the hand of Pozzo.
He cannot compete with a rival to whom many of the greatest masters are compelled to yield the palm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: campaign; challenge; compete; cope; emulate; jockey; meet; rival; strive; struggle; vie
