rival
noun
a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
were rivaling
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past progressiveof rival.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Recording sales were rivaling such alltime British favorites as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn.
From Time Magazine Archive
It appears alternately red and green, as though the colors were rivaling each other for complete mastery.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh
His and Polly's Rhode Island Reds were rivaling my Leghorns in productiveness, and all of Riverfield seemed to have gone chicken mad.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
And then came the blood-curdling sounds––whimpers and groans that were rivaling the whistling of the wind.
From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates
Two years afterward, frigates such as the Labrador, Orenoque, Albatros, etc., of 450 H.P., were rivaling English vessels on the ocean.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
