Tournament is an English word with synonyms like contest or competition. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tournament in a sentence
Related words
Tournament meaning
- During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
Synonyms of Tournament
Using Tournament
- The main meaning on this page is: During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. | A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual. | A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
- Useful related words include: contest, competition, tourney.
- In the example corpus, tournament often appears in combinations such as: the tournament, ncaa tournament, tournament and.
Example sentences (20)
It was Auger-Aliassime's earliest exit at a tournament since the 22-year-old from Montreal, who entered the tournament ranked No. 9 in the world, lost his first match at a season-opening tournament in Adelaide, Australia.
One such tournament for The Americas region was won by The Bahamas, who upset host Argentina to make it into a play-in tournament next summer; the winner of that tournament will win a berth in the Olympics.
At 120, Febo took fifth place at the Essex County Tournament last January and third place at the District 9 tournament to qualify for the Region 3 tournament in February.
Participating in the Mustang March Madness Tournament Friday and Saturday, March 16-17 — its third tournament in the last three weeks and this of the pool-play variety — Medomak finished 4-0 on the weekend and shot its way to the tournament title.
Instead, this decision is left open to tournament-specific rules (e.g. a Swiss system tournament or Round-robin tournament ) or, in the case of non-competitive play, mutual agreement, in which case some kind of random choice is often employed.
It also presents chef demonstrations, the Coors Light Competitive Bocce Tournament, the Galtelli Cup Recreational Bocce Tournament, a volleyball tournament, and pizza tossing demonstrations.
To fulfill requirement 2b, the candidate must score one GM norm in a category 1a tournament or two norms within a three-year period in two Category 1b tournaments, or one Category 2a tournament and one Category 1b tournament.
After the first round, Austin Peay State University leads the tournament with 15 birdies with Dedmen carding a tournament-best six birdies as an individual.
Bedard provided a string of jaw-dropping performances for Canada at the recent men’s under-20 tournament in the Maritimes, setting a boatload of national and tournament records to help lead his country to gold.
Beth Mead, player of the tournament and top scorer at Euro 2022 for England, became the first female footballer to win the award, complementing her tournament victory.
Both teams will play in the region tournament with the top four teams in the region tournament going to the playoffs.
Club players of the tournament in the Ryan McBride Soccer Tournament played at the Brandywell on Wednesday as part of Feile 23. Included at back are Siounin McBride, Ryan's sister, his dad Lexie McBride, and Colleen McCay, Ryan's sister.
Dante beat 15 other keglers in the monthly tournament, which serves as a qualifier for the coveted “Bowler of the Year” tournament.
Following the conclusion of the tournament, fans of the classic game show have only traditional episodes to look forward to for the foreseeable future, with the next Tournament of Champions likely not happening until the fall.
Following the format of a round-robin tournament on the Racecourse Ground pitch, the tournament draw will be made live by Wrexham AFC manager Phil Parkinson.
Golfers look forward to this tournament – to these trophies and prizes – and they will be presented on the last day when we will be having the end-of-tournament dinner, February 12, marking the end of the 24th IBB Ladies Open Championship.
He said: “I threw away a golf tournament with the way I putted during the tournament, and in the play-off.
It's true that actual sports anime can present a tournament arc or storyline with sports such as baseball, basketball, volleyball and tennis, conveniently making use of real-world tournament rules and conventions to tell a story.
It was only a third time that a batter scored a triple hundred in the tournament after Martin Guptill and – both of whom did so in the 2015 edition of the tournament.
MI Emirates not only recorded the highest score of the tournament but also the biggest victory of the tournament.
Common combinations with tournament
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tournament 110×
- ncaa tournament 32×
- tournament and 27×
- tournament in 23×
- state tournament 14×
- conference tournament 13×
- tournament to 11×
- tournament of 9×
- tournament at 9×
- tournament as 9×