"മത്സരം" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം ഒരു മത്സരത്തിലോ പോരാട്ടത്തിലോ ഏർപ്പെടുക, എന്തെങ്കിലും വെല്ലുവിളിക്കുക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ തർക്കിക്കുക, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ വിയോജിപ്പിന്റെയോ എതിർപ്പിന്റെയോ ഔദ്യോഗിക പ്രഖ്യാപനം നടത്തുക എന്നതാണ്. ഒരു സമ്മാനം നേടുന്നതിനോ ഒരു പ്രത്യേക ലക്ഷ്യം നേടുന്നതിനോ വേണ്ടി ആളുകൾ പരസ്പരം മത്സരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു ഇവന്റിനെയോ മത്സരത്തെയോ ഇതിന് പരാമർശിക്കാം.
1. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
2. Fogg and Fix was in rags, as if they had themselves been actively engaged in the contest between Camerfield and Mandiboy.
3. First the bearded guys and now there was a barbershop quartet contest going on this weekend.
4. If Love his wares Do dearly sell, his right must be contest What gold compares With that whereon his stamp he hath imprest?
5. Since then, it had been one big contest after another with the two of them.
6. All summer there was a contest to see who could bag the muskrat family freeloading under the gazebo.
7. It was a contest of wills as their lips, teeth and tongues fought for superiority.
8. Before I could give in to my nausea and vomit all over his beautiful table, a group of people walked in and ended our staring contest.
9. They were all aware that a melee was a contest between two groups of knights which had no rules and, unlike some of the other contests, the sharpest and deadliest weapons were used.
10. Helena recalled a time when they debated who would win a local singing contest.