rat race

Example Sentences

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But Dharmendra wore his stardom lightly, staying away from the rat race and said he never wanted to be number one in the industry.

From BBC

But it’s also clear that many are sick of the rat race.

From New York Times

You know what they say: You win the rat race, you’re still a rat.

From Washington Post

“It just felt like a rat race in these classes to memorize these procedures, these formulas. It never really meshed with me.”

From Washington Post

As always, the company continued to exist in its own world, divorced from the technological rat race that typically defines these debates.

From The Verge