- present tense form of prize (3rd person singular).
prizes
Example Sentences
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Before his death three decades later he arranged to leave most of his fortune to establish the annual prizes that now bear the family’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
He won two Nobel prizes and transformed our understanding of chemical bonds and the structure of proteins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
All entrants in the main literature prizes in the National Eisteddfod compete under pseudonyms, as a part of the festival's strict confidentiality rule.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Citizen detectives like Diarra Brickland, who arranges her messy life around ensuring that the people and prizes typically overlooked or quietly erased by the mainstream keep being seen, are even less common.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
And the fruits—mango, guava, avocado—these we had barely glimpsed before, in the big Kroger store in Atlanta, yet now the trees reach right down and deliver such exotic prizes straight into our hands!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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