Example Sentences

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Contentiously, he added it was "incapable" of being developed to the standard required.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2021

Contentiously, that sanction didn't cover his Olympic result.

From US News • Jun. 17, 2016

Contentiously, that sanction didn’t cover his Olympic result.

From Washington Times • Jun. 16, 2016

Contentiously content, she takes Her strident way through life, And goodness only knows what makes Her choose to be my wife.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 by Various