How do you use Rival in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like compete or contend, plus the exact meaning.
Rival in a sentence
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Rival meaning
- A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
- Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
- One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Synonyms of Rival
Example sentences (20)
Anderson’s dismissal at St. John’s came one day after longtime Big East rival Georgetown fired coach Patrick Ewing.
And it was better than the 60 per cent slump in quarterly profits to £2.7billion reported by arch-rival BP this week.
Alain is a powerful Pokémon trainer from the Kalos region and a friendly rival to Ash throughout the anime era.
Another former Chief Minister of J&K, Omar Abdullah of the PDP’s arch-rival, the National Conference, was also present.
Beale will be hoping to get at least some of these players back in time ahead of this big rival clash in the north east.
But Lexeo’s IPO comes as a rival gene therapy developer sues the biotech, claiming its work employs stolen trade secrets.
Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi was tabbed Colorado State's starting quarterback in a Week-2 meeting with in-state rival Colorado.
And it’ll get interesting if McMahon tries to play rival bidders off each other to keep himself in charge.
All Progressive Congress’s Babajide Sanwo-Olu led the voting with a clear margin over his closest rival from the Labour Party.
And Bradley and the Rams will be hoping to rival Pompey in the battle for a return to the Championship.
All have invested heavily with big budgets, exotic locations, new talent and storylines and challenges to rival previous series.
Al Marzullo’s 16 points and eight rebounds stood out for Plymouth South (3-0), beating Patriot League rival Plymouth North 43-29.
A local grand final descended into chaos after a footy player was given a red card for knocking out a rival player in ugly scenes.
But his decision to return to the Premier League at a London rival has not gone down well with some sections of the Spurs support.
Another source said that the Brij Bhushan camp was also open to a rival camp being given one senior post in the new governing body.
As the Sports Business Journal reported, Silverman “” during pitches from rival networks last year.
After his rival from the Gulf Cartel, Osiel Cardenas, was caught in 2003, El Chapo became the most powerful drug lord in the country.
And of course younger small-scale brewers have begun making hoppy Belgian pale ales to rival the best of the US craft beer explosion.
At least 10 people have been killed in fighting between two rival guerrilla groups in northeast Colombia this week, locals told media.
And we hadn’t beaten our rival Brunswick in 10 years and we did that (4-3 in double overtime).
Common combinations with rival
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his rival 13×
- to rival 13×
- rival to 10×
- as rival 9×
- by rival 9×
- the rival 8×
- rival in 7×
- from rival 6×
- rival the 6×
- its rival 6×
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