Example Sentences

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Godfrey says he wonders if Dory’s human competitors might have rivaled her performance if they, too, had been through months of intense training.

From National Geographic • Sep. 13, 2023

During the last decade that state has reeled from one of the most significant droughts since the 1950s to a series of deluges that have rivaled any period of flooding Texas has ever experienced.

From Salon • May 22, 2022

The findings suggest these toxic blooms would have rivaled their modern counterparts.

From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 2022

And he collected her work in a way that few have rivaled.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021

I knew indeed that he was no great orator; otherwise I should have expected an eulogium that might have rivaled the French academy, the odes of Boileau, or even my own composition.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas