Contends is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTENDS in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTEND, to vie
• struggle to surmount (a difficulty)
• compete with others in a struggle to achieve (something)
• assert something as a position in an argument

Words related to CONTENDS

contend10 contended13 contending14

How to use CONTENDS in a sentence

• Hence, though he apparently fails of his immediate desire in each of these three orations, the principle for which he contends cannot fail.
• He is a warm friend of mine and contends for priority in my favor, and is also partial to my telegraphic system as the best.
• Eschricht, contends that Caspar was at first an idiot and afterwards an impostor.
• Thus the farmer, the man on whose product we all live, too often contends almost single-handed against his highly organized competitors.
• In politics no one seriously contends that respect for the feelings and prejudices of other people requires us to be silent about our opinions.
• Mill contends for the necessity of freedom in the expression of opinion to the mental wellbeing of mankind, are virtually contained in these.
• He contends that whatever community wants slaves has a right to have them.
• The geologist contends for uniformity throughout the past physical history of the Earth.
• The ocean struggles, as it were, to quench the fire, while the fire contends with the ocean, which raises its head, as though threatening to cover the topmost mountains.
• The Shepherd contends there is nothing more mysterious than motion.
• Still he contends that these may be explained on the doctrine of evolution.
• Liapounoff contends that for constant density the new series of figures, which M.
• We belong to no party in Ireland or elsewhere, except to that which contends for justice, for liberty, and for the happiness of the Irish people.
• Everett contends, was fulfilled by the rapid spread of Christianity, and he quotes, in proof of this, some passages of the Fathers.
• The supernaturalistic theory, La Saussaye contends, is incorrect.
• Larroque contends that the time has now come for a total departure from the last pagan tradition.
• It is difficult to convince an ardent reformer that the principle for which he contends, being impersonal, should be purified from the passions and whims of his own personality.
• Direct collision, therefore, between force and force, is the unavoidable result of that remedy for the revision of unconstitutional laws which the gentleman contends for.
• Whatever may have been maintained in systems of philosophy, he contends that in common life the habitual motives of panegyric or censure are of the kind described by him.
• In the next place, he contends at length that the usefulness of a disposition of mind is seldom the first ground of our approbation.
• The author contends that, notwithstanding these limitations, we still leave unimpaired the approbation of unmixed good as good, and the disapprobation of unmixed evil as evil.
• He also contends for the partly legislative and partly ethical innovation of Freedom of Divorce.
• To calculate the general tendency of every sort of human action is, he contends, a possible, easy, and common operation.
• Mere feeling, he contends, can never take a man out of self.
• Still, he contends, in the long run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
• Herr Parish next contends that people who see pictures in crystal balls, and so on, are not so wide awake as to be in their normal consciousness.
• The pastoral Texan, he contends, shared his canteen with the wayfarer, and never refused to water cattle.
• Baty, however, contends that it was not a new right, that of passage through Portuguese territory, but was one created by this treaty.
• Scaliger, on the other hand, contends that Lucan was a true poet, and that the critics do but trifle, when they object that he wrote history, not an epic poem.
• This proposition, Diderot contends, is false in all moral and occasional causes.
• This debt the worthy chairman, who sits opposite to me, contends to be three millions sterling.
• Tarde ingeniously contends, the bent of civilisation at present is to travel northward.
• Not only are results of a single law opposed, but the laws pull one this way, one that, as gravitation contends with currents of water and air.

Similar words containing NTEND without suffix s and without prefix co

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