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Prize is an English word with synonyms like award or regard. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Prize meaning

  1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  2. Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
  3. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

Synonyms of Prize

Using Prize

  • The main meaning on this page is: That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. | Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. | An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
  • Useful related words include: award, prise, regard, view.
  • In the example corpus, prize often appears in combinations such as: the prize, prize for, prize in.

Example sentences (20)

Upon hearing the Cue-to-Call, be the designated caller to the Station’s Contest phone number to win the announced prize (i.e., a prize, a qualifying prize, etc…) or opportunity (i.e., will be qualified for a chance to win a prize or grand prize, etc…).

Besides the prize for the fastest boat, an environmental prize is awarded to the crew that collects the most rubbish along the way, an originality prize is given to the most creative crew, and a drunkenness prize to the most inebriated crew.

Staggs received a $50 cash prize for coming in first place, Smith a $30 cash prize and Pinson a $20 cash prize.

The Ramsay Prize, awarded at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Friday, is Australia's biggest award for artists under 40 and comes with the same prize money as the Archibald Prize.

Among the signatories to the campaign are winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award.

In the women’s category, Jin Hee Baek (South Korea) bagged first prize, Jae Ryun Ha (South Korea) received the second prize and Rupa Devi Karki (India) got the third prize.

Previously know as the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction, it is one of the most powerful book prizes in the UK, along with the Man Booker Prize and Costa Book Awards.

As both Banerjee and Duflo acknowledged in interviews after the prize was announced, this is not just a prize for them, but a prize for the entire movement.

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He is the recipient of the Infosys Prize, the Adisheshiah Prize and the Amartya Sen Prize.

Since the inception of the Prize in 1987, Mr. Al Creighton has been the secretary and administrator of this Prize for 30.5 years — may I say he is the judge, jury, and executor of this Prize.

She took the prize Amelia from a French prize crew on 15 September, and Talbot sent the ship back to New York City with an American prize crew.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics) is a prize awarded to economists each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field.

This campaign was unsuccessful in Hubble's lifetime, but shortly after his death, the Nobel Prize Committee decided that astronomical work would be eligible for the physics prize. citation However, the prize is not one that can be awarded posthumously.

Among many commendations, Cash has received the Pat Conroy Legacy Award from the Southern Independent Booksellers’ Alliance, the Mary Frances Hobson Prize from Chowan University, and the Appalachian Heritage Prize from Shepherd University.

Founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental prize to discover and develop ground-breaking solutions to solve the climate crisis.

He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.

In May, he won first prize in the Oakville Chamber Orchestra's youth concerto competition, and in February, he took top prize in McGill's concerto competition, securing concerto performances for himself with both institutions in the coming concert season.

In the 13 and over category, the winners for the top prize were two brothers and the second prize was their mother.

In this photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm.

Last year, the Prize attracted 168 competing entries from artists in 14 West African countries with the top prize going to Malian artist Daouda Traore.

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Common combinations with prize

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "prize" in a sentence?
An example: "Upon hearing the Cue-to-Call, be the designated caller to the Station’s Contest phone number to win the announced prize (i.e., a prize, a qualifying prize, etc…) or opportunity (i.e., will be qualified for a chance to win a prize or grand prize, etc…)." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "prize" from authentic English texts.
What does "prize" mean?
Prize means: That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
What are synonyms of "prize"?
Common synonyms of "prize" include: award, prise, regard, view, reckon, consider, see, value. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "prize" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "prize", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.