How to Use entrant in a Sentence

entrant

noun
  • Each entrant had to agree to the contest rules.
  • 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
  • Every entrant won some kind of prize this year, thanks to the sponsors.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
  • 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 next entrant in a parade of robots to the Moon has begun its journey.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Renfroe's no-look catch in the season opener is an early entrant for play of the year and left pitcher Shohei Ohtani in awe.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There was a little chatter at the time that the winner would be an early entrant in the NFC playoff race, which makes sense when a team is 3-1.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Lathan Ransom is a third-year player who could be an early entrant to the draft.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Hardest hit by the freight slump are the new entrants who were lured to the business by the pay-any-price pandemic environment.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
  • Of the new entrants, Givenchy’s Prisme Libre blush has captured our attention.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But the Panthers, the East’s Stanley Cup entrant last season, didn’t go away quietly.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Each entrant will receive a coupon worth $1.50 off the price of an Orlando Baking product.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 29 June 2022
  • The entrant did explain that there’s a Spitony’s Pizza way out in rural Warrenton, Va.
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Siesta Beach was also the state’s only entrant into the global best beach list coming in at No. 11.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Science in Sport Energy Gels are available along the course at miles 12 and 18 to help entrants refuel.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Residents are encouraged to email photos or a video of their display along with the entrant’s name and address by Dec. 18.
    John Benson, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022
  • No matter how they were ushered out, some entrants had reason to be satisfied.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Each entrant will conduct a live, four-minute pitch about its product followed by a four-minute question-and-answer session from a panel of judges.
    Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Raffle tickets with unique numbers will be distributed to entrants the week leading up to the drawing.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2023

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