Example Sentences

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The event "robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have rivalled anywhere else in the world", Nichols said in a phone interview.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025

Only nursing homes and prisons have rivalled slaughterhouses for rampant contagion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2020

The Appalachian Mountains would have rivalled the Himalayas in extent and height during the Devonian.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

"It was a force that would have rivalled the Spanish Armada of 300 years later," says Dr Henderson.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2012

Others, like De Quincey, have rivalled, and perhaps equalled his best passages.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh