He had not only to contend against a biting north-west wind, which temporarily got mixed up with a flurry of snow, but the course itself, from the character of the land, is about as difficult to score over as any in the country.
And the same remarks are evidently equally valuable as regards rot, and show us the necessity of modifying our manurial and pruning practices so as to enable the tree the better to contend against it as well as leaf disease.
Royal Navy are as hard to contend against in the rosy lists of love as they are to beat in the ruddy game of war.
I seek not to contend against my brothers; Why should I grieve their hearts, or give distress To any human being?
When it came, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, it found European society in a great measure formed; it had to contend against an adult, who could not easily be made to forget his ideas and change his habits.
This last triumph of the Franks appeared to them like a decision of heaven that men ought not to contend against.
The real difficulty which such an one would have to contend against would be to remove the sordidness, the reckless passion, the unscrupulousness, the criminal intent which lies behind such a character.
As twenty years had now elapsed since the disappearance of Sebastian, he would have changed much in appearance, so in one respect the personator had less to contend against.
But on the other hand the new impostor had new difficulties to contend against.
He had to contend against treachery, desertion and want, but rose above all these obstacles, and proved himself the most powerful obstructor that the British columns had to encounter in South Africa.
The odds, of course, will be so great to contend against, that, humanly speaking, you will be bound to retreat across the Orange River.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contend against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
