How to Use entrant in a Sentence

entrant

noun
  • Each entrant had to agree to the contest rules.
  • As a wild-card entrant to the playoffs, then, the Dodgers drew the fourth seed.
    New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the men’s 3,000, last-minute entrant Woody Kincaid will be one to watch.
    Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The Challenge Award winner may be any of the 35 entrants.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
  • As the newest entrant, he was assigned to sleep on the floor next to the toilet.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • If the playoffs were today, the Saints (5-2) would be in as a wild-card entrant.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Park was not the only entrant discussing poa and the Aviara greens.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Every entrant won some kind of prize this year, thanks to the sponsors.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Weeknd manages to score one of three new entrants inside the top 10 on the iTunes songs ranking.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The portal is currently closed to new entrants but will re-open in the spring.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Their last new entrant inside the highest tier on the tally came to them back in 1996.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Eddie Kingston, who might have been the most over man in this match, was the final entrant in Blood and Guts.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The first will be for lower-cost missions and will be open to a plethora of new entrants.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The turnover has allowed some new entrants to open up shop in the neighborhood.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The next entrant in a parade of robots to the Moon has begun its journey.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • Chehock, an attorney who works in San Diego, is the newest entrant in the race.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Thus was born Zingeroo, a new entrant on the mobile app stock-trading scene.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Then again, there was just one mushroom entrant this year: her.
    Scott Calvert, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The deal also gives YouTube a big entrant in the live sports game, which has become a bigger part of the streaming menu in the past two years.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Hornet is a new entrant in the Dodge lineup and sits below the mid-size Durango.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There are a handful of entrants appearing for the first time on this year’s list, and a few have fallen off.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • While the same countries tend to appear in the top 20 year after year, there’s a new entrant this year: Lithuania.
    Marnie Hunter, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As an incentive, entrants get two free tickets to the Fair.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Volvo Trucks has been one of the early entrants in the electric truck market.
    San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024
  • Anderson, a wild-card entrant and the eighth seed, is coming off knee surgery last year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • To be eligible, entrants must reach more than 50% on the points scale.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a very late entrant to the 2019 edition.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The startup ecosystem has become noisy, with new entrants left and right.
    Will Freeman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • What few thought, though, is the winner would be the lone entrant that Yakteen has trained since the 3-year-old started racing last year.
    John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Since April, entrants from around the world have been using data from the Summit to make art that explores the relationship between nature and the jewelry industry, within the context of a more sustainable future.
    Kate Matthams, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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