The population there had increased until it rivaled Oregon and passed the neighboring commonwealth in 1890.
The promises of the Declaration of Independence had been fulfilled and the heroic deeds of the Revolution rivaled by Republican leaders.
Even hostile newspapers were forced to admit that no other convention in our history, except possibly the first Republican convention of 1856, rivaled it in the enthusiasm and devotion of the delegates.
The scenes of vice and profligacy during this period must have rivaled the court life of an ancient Roman emperor.
The barnyard clamor would have rivaled the well-known symphony of the Edison Phonograph Company of New York and Paris.
There is a continuity in language which nothing equals, and there is an historical genuineness in ancient words, if but rightly interpreted, which cannot be rivaled by manuscripts, or coins, or monumental inscriptions.
We have seen the rise of the nobility, from the time when the barbarian chiefs preferred living outside the walls of cities to the time when they rivaled the French cavaliers in courtly bearing and chivalrous bravery.
The Italian communities, which hitherto had rivaled the Germans in ignorance of every kind, were just awakening from their torpidity, and their recently opened eyes turned to the light which emanated from Maimuni.
The Jews rivaled the Chazraj Arabs in bravery in resisting Abu-Kariba's attack, and finally succeeded in tiring out his troops.
Its Talmudical school, which rivaled that in Narbonne, educated numerous foreign students, who, if needy, were provided with all necessaries by the congregation.
From the point of view of learning, he occupied the first place of his time, in religion and morality he was rivaled by but few of his compeers, but in his strongly-marked individuality he surpassed all his contemporaries.
The French and the Germans rivaled the savage Moors in the energy with which they strove to enfeeble still more the weakest of the peoples.
In the extent to which municipal ownership has been carried Great Britain leads the world, although in other countries some cities like Vienna have rivaled the cities of Great Britain.
It may have been that the Golden Horn at one time rivaled the Bosphorus in beauty, but it does so no longer.
One room contains two thrones brought from Persia, one of which must have rivaled the famous Peacock Throne of Delhi.
Besides she had two little girls of her own, and she fancied Ann rivaled them in Grandma's affection.
But he had a boy of twelve, an only son, who rivaled the Princess Ariadne Diana in point of fatness.
But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me.
In architectural magnificence he rivaled or surpassed the former princes of his race, the monuments of whose grandeur still exist in the mosque of the Beni-Umeyyah at Damascus, and other edifices adorning the cities of Syria.
His graceful style was hardly rivaled by any other writer of the period; and England, at a time when Scott and Byron were playing heroic parts, welcomed him heartily to a place on the literary stage.
The White House was refurnished in the most expensive manner, and a code of etiquette was established which rivaled that of a German principality.
Later von Humboldt wrote to Mr. Gallatin of the interest felt abroad, and by himself, in the gold of the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, a country which rivaled on a small scale the Dorado of Siberia.
No one of American birth has ever rivaled him in this field.
The Spanish, English, and German papers rivaled the American in their friendly criticisms of his performances.
When the Puritans were in power, the popular party, with a zeal which rivaled that of the crown, sought, in turn, to silence royalist and clerical writers by a vigorous censorship.
All through the eighteenth century, the commerce of the American colonies spread in every direction until it rivaled in the number of people employed, the capital engaged, and the profits gleaned, the commerce of European nations.
In nearly every coal-bearing region, iron was also discovered and the great fields of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota soon rivaled those of the Appalachian area.
It would have been hard to have decided which was the predominant color in the dresses of these two worthy citizens; they would have rivaled any tulip bed in a Dutch garden, and perfectly dazzled Marguerite when they entered the room.
This latter prince returned to his domains in Novgorod, and under the protection of the throne he rivaled the monarch in splendor and power.
Jules rivaled me in filial attentions to him, that I can never cease to thank him for; but this illness made my situation more and more critical, and it accelerated the fulfillment of the contract.
In all his principal matches he rode himself, and in that branch of equitation rivaledthe most professional jockeys.
The Dutch, Portuguese, and French, as well as the British, established themselves in the empire; in the eighteenth century the French more than rivaled the British in power.
The village of Danvers was separated by only a mile or so of swale and swamp from Salem, a place that once rivaled Boston commercially, and in matters of black cats, and elderly women who aviated on broomsticks by night, set the world a pace.
He rivaled both Yankee-Gentile and Jew, and his blarney was a commodity that stood him in good stead.
Remains of its ancient ramparts still were to be seen, and moats with lilies floating on their dark waters, and the vast Grande Place, with the glorious Cloth Hall occupying one side of the huge square, rivaled only by that of Brussels.
Jean Ruysbroeck was called the "Father of Flemish Prose," while Jean le Bel (a Walloon) started a school of writers which rivaledthat of France.
He had accepted all the traditional functions of the typical Hwangti, and the etiquette and splendor of his court rivaled that of the Sungs.
The splendor and display of the gathering was rivaled only by the magnificence of the welcome the terrible monarch received on his return to Asshur, his own capital.
The furnishings rivaled in beauty the splendor of the outside.
The Jewish colony in Egypt built a special Temple, that of Onias, which rivaled the sanctuary at Jerusalem.
About a hundred Parisian Jews were also enrolled in the National Guard, and rivaled the other citizens in patriotism and revolutionary spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivaled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
