Example Sentences

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While I am contending it may be true, or possible, that is a type of viewer.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2015

If you consider what is meant by the common phrases, a happy disposition and a discontented temper, you will perceive that the truth for which I am contending is universally admitted.

From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love

He is but fighting a man of straw when he assumes that I am contending against the right of the States to do as they please about it.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates by Lincoln, Abraham

But the position I am contending for is not to be regarded as a mere inference in a process of reasoning.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

But I am contending that the dog is immortal, hence my assumption at the very start, that though dead, he may record his sensations.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues