Example Sentences

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Tournaments once so defined now blur into adulthood ambivalence, postcards plotted along the timeline of your life, the details growing grainy.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026

Tournaments began as rougher, less “gentlemanly” affairs in which competitors rode against each other with lances and then proceeded to fight with close-quarters weapons ahorse or on foot.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

Tournaments are taking place this weekend in Arizona and next weekend in Roseville.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

The Cougars are 10-0 in the building, including the past two AAC Tournaments and regular-season games in each of the past three seasons.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

I felt a good kind of nervous, the way I did when I played against the good players in the Rucker Tournaments in Harlem.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers