event
Example Sentences
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Former world indoor champion Josh Kerr was given a medical exemption after withdrawing from the men's 3,000m because of a back injury, Tom Keen stepping up in his absence to win the event.
From BBC
Away from the flagship park and pipe squad, Andrew Musgrave - competing at his fifth Olympics - finished sixth in the 10km interval start freestyle to post Britain's best finish in a Winter Olympic cross-country skiing event.
From BBC
"We know that it's a huge event, Pakistan against India. We obviously won five games on the bounce before today so we were confident, but today we got outplayed," said Hesson.
From Barron's
"It's all a bit of a whirlwind, I took confidence from the individual event and in my head I had to be quite boring and just get the job done."
From BBC
Those were the days when court was in session in a county, and people would come together for events like horse races and wrestling, he says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
