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Example sentences for "competes"

Lexicographically close words:
competed; competence; competency; competent; competently; competing; competition; competitions; competitive; competitiveness
  1. He creates a market for the products of labor even while he competes with labor.

  2. Empire State competes with Niagara, Diamond and Pocklington for supremacy among green grapes in commercial vineyards, probably taking fourth place the country over.

  3. From the point of view of the social labour process which is the only one to matter in a socialist society, the machine competes not with the labour that is necessary to maintain the worker but with the labour he actually performs.

  4. In quite a different historical setting, in South Africa, the same process shows up even more clearly the 'peaceful methods' by which capital competes with the small commodity producer.

  5. There are perhaps three million farmers in the United States engaged in producing corn, and each one of these competes with all the others.

  6. Alexandrian exchange on London below par, Egyptian gold competes with Councils as a means of remittance to India.

  7. Australia competes with them as a means of remittance to India.

  8. If the same kind of foresight has plotted a city upon wild lands, and held a portion of those plotted lots until a crowded population competes for their use, such wealth is said to be gained upon the principle of rent.

  9. The Chinaman in this country competes with the American upon a wholly different plane of living.

  10. He taught in Venice and in the college of La Carita, where he painted the Nativity of our Lord, and the Taking down from the Cross, while he competes equally well with the first artists of his time in other places.

  11. The factory competes with the hand loom and banishes it.

  12. The trust competes with the small firm and puts it out of business.

  13. The tobacco made by them competes with the best Virginia article, and has completely supplanted all the inferior qualities of that tobacco.

  14. The custodia made by Juan de Arphe in 1587, a Leonese artist, and grandson of Enrique, for the cathedral of Seville, competes with that of Toledo.

  15. I will order two crossbows from Maestro Michel, who competes with the maker at Barbastro.

  16. If it is said that one competes with the original which the other does not, the answer is that it is no defence to say that an infringement is made for a wholly different market from that which the original commands.

  17. It is no answer to an action for infringement to say that the defendant's book in no way rivals or competes with the plaintiff's work.

  18. None of these competes with the primacy of the coal industry, which the world economy assigns to that community.

  19. They have learned, contrary to the traditional belief of farmers, that there is a greater profit for the individual farmer in raising the same crop as his neighbor, than there is in an especial crop which competes in the market for itself.

  20. Competes for Admittance to the University at Christiania.

  21. She competes favorably in London with Grisi, Persiani, and Viardot.

  22. His meditations are upon ages gone; his work competes with that of the dead.

  23. A single commercial transaction to-day involves the lives of hundreds of thousands, competes for their toil and life-blood, carries the decision of their destiny.

  24. We should have teams composed of all-round athletes, each of whom competes in all events; these athletes will not break records, but they will be super-athletes such as a great nation should aim at producing.

  25. Every one who competes must not have more than half his allotment in potatoes.

  26. Capital competes with capital for a share in production just as one firm competes with another to secure a market for its product.

  27. The surrounding states are the chief buyers, and none of them competes with Switzerland to any extent in the character of the exports.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "competes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.