Explore Competing through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like competitive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Competing meaning
Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).
Synonyms of Competing
Using Competing
- The main meaning on this page is: Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).
- Useful related words include: competitive, competitory.
- In the example corpus, competing often appears in combinations such as: competing in, competing for, competing with.
Context around Competing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Competing
- In this selection, "competing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, despite, exported, write, sonnets, claims and narratives stand out and add context to how "competing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include will be competing in the and after competing in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "competing" sits close to words such as acknowledged, resource and components, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with competing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aaron, 40 and Natali Johnston, 42, travel the world competing in bearding contests. (13 words)
Trump is competing in the caucus, but Nikki Haley is competing in the primary. (14 words)
Alice Cutler is competing in Miss England 2024 in memory of her mum Tereasa Cutler. (15 words)
We see this vividly in the competing claims about the origins of the virus (both countries have accused each other of originating it as a bioweapon) and competing narratives over which country has been more efficient in dealing with the pandemic. (41 words)
Along with racing for the Stars, he will also be competing for Grudziadz in the Polish Ekstraliga and Region Varde in his home country of Denmark, with Stars team-mates Pickering and Michael Palm Toft also in the squad. (39 words)
At this time members of Shelley's literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject—Shelley, John Keats and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets on the Nile around the same time. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
I am competing with who I was yesterday as a human being and a pro wrestler, and we, as the Collision team, are competing with what we did last Saturday.
Brodie Bamford is also competing in the snowboard events and brothers Fletcher and Fergus McArthur are competing in the freeski events.
Despite competing in the tournament for the second time, Kathleen revealed she does not yet have the famous Olympic rings tattoo that so many athletes have tatted after competing.
They are not the biggest growers, but most of the crop is exported, competing with us, and competing for the most part while having lessor cost of production and lessor export prices.
Trump is competing in the caucus, but Nikki Haley is competing in the primary.
We see this vividly in the competing claims about the origins of the virus (both countries have accused each other of originating it as a bioweapon) and competing narratives over which country has been more efficient in dealing with the pandemic.
Culling and Moore will be competing in the steer wrestling, while Watson will be competing in the saddle broncs.
Recently, Gio has been competing in the advanced brackets in college competitions, and he is looking forward to competing more this semester.
So I’m not competing with Google on display, but I am competing with their DSP business.
Competing for the United States would have been a long shot, but by representing South Korea, Gamelin and Min’s dreams of competing in the Olympics were finally coming true.
At this time members of Shelley's literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject—Shelley, John Keats and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets on the Nile around the same time.
Aaron, 40 and Natali Johnston, 42, travel the world competing in bearding contests.
Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia are likely the biggest threats, with AMD competing on motherboards, servers, and other computer-related hardware.
Africa is previewing every member of the Springboks team competing in this year's World Cup.
After 2022 ended without taking a snap, Rudolph searched for a clearer path toward competing for playing time.
After competing in the local finals in 2022 and coming first, Alfie repeated the competition this year, again wowing judges and coming first place with his rainbow trout main and captivating tart dessert.
Aleena grew up dancing in all genres of dance and competing with her studios at very high levels, which led her to our school’s competitive dance team.
Alice Cutler is competing in Miss England 2024 in memory of her mum Tereasa Cutler.
Along with racing for the Stars, he will also be competing for Grudziadz in the Polish Ekstraliga and Region Varde in his home country of Denmark, with Stars team-mates Pickering and Michael Palm Toft also in the squad.
Also competing in Taiwan are the host country, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, India, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.
Common combinations with competing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- competing in 54×
- competing for 27×
- competing with 19×
- competing against 14×
- are competing 13×
- be competing 13×
- competing at 12×
- of competing 10×
- and competing 9×
- after competing 8×