be rivals
Example Sentences
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Close their whole lives, they'll be rivals when the teams take the field Tuesday night for Game 1.
From Fox News • Oct. 26, 2021
These schools feel like they should be rivals by proximity.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021
He added: “They might be rivals in the game, but everyone’s a family.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2018
The Wooden Planks say they have nothing to do with all that, insisting that “we may be rivals, but we are not enemies.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2018
It was becoming clear that when the war ended the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only world powers left standing—and that they’d be rivals.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
