How to Use contend with in a Sentence

contend with

phrasal verb

• These were just some of the questions CEOs had to contend with.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• Time to go on the hunt, even with an IPO-sized elephant in the room to contend with.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• And the town must contend with the empty husk of a hospital.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
• The Earth has never had to contend with a sky quite so full of machines.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• That’s a lot to contend with for the Panthers, the league’s only winless team.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Even Rhaenyra, who is the Queen, has to contend with her male council talking over and around her.
  — Olivia-Anne Cleary, TIME, 29 July 2024
• For every moment of joy, there’s a whole lot of anger and disgust to contend with!
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
• What lessons were learned by folks who didn’t have to contend with downpours during the Wave’s season-and-a-third on the site?
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• But a head injury wasn’t the only thing the six-time Grammy winner had to contend with.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2024
• Both missions had to contend with the same merciless icescapes.
  — Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
• And those aren’t the only X factors scientists have to contend with.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023
• The Biden campaign has been contending with a number of damning polls since the debate.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 17 July 2024
• Places that didn't get as much rain still had to contend with the extra water moving downstream.
  — Margery A. Beck, TIME, 25 June 2024
• Places that didn’t get as much rain still had to contend with the extra water moving downstream.
  — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
• But even then, Israel will have to contend with the challenge of who will establish law and order in Gaza.
  — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• But any life on the Jovian moon would need to contend with some extreme conditions.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• There was also the Teen Dance Ordinance to contend with, a curfew law used by the city to shut down all-ages parties and hip-hop events.
  — Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
• The film has been lauded as a masterpiece but is not for kids and contending with an R rating.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
• Great literature, like lifting, makes a claim on one’s life that one has to contend with.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Defining value is the topic of the day as the Gemini sun contends with Saturn.
  — USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
• Those with phones waved around their flashlights to alert anyone to their location, but the tiny cluster of white lights could not contend with the fury of the wildfire.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Then there are election jitters and changes to commissions to contend with.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• How does the divide affect life in Libya? Libyans have been forced to contend with the challenges of life in a country governed as two failing states.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some users on Meta’s platforms contend with attacks like this one every day.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
• Tehran has also had to contend with Israeli forces, which have attacked Iranian ships in the Red Sea.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
• There is, for all intents and purposes, already one state across the land between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea—a fact that the world must contend with.
  — Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
• There’s also streaming to contend with and being able to watch, like, five-second TikToks on your phone.
  — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• Claire has to contend with Jenny's anger over her inability to help Ian.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
• Sure, there is still speed/pace and green-reading to contend with, but when one of the other key variables – direction – is simplified, that’s a plus for golfers.
  — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• Frustrated viewers contended with buffering and blurry video, a result of tens of millions of households trying to watch the bout at once.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024