How to Use no contest in a Sentence

no contest

noun

• The Pac-12 said the game will be declared a no contest.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2020
• They are asked to plead guilty, not guilty or no contest.
  — Jolie McCullough, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Dec. 2021
• The game is declared a no contest, and there are no plans to reschedule it.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• The game will not be made up and is considered a no contest.
  — Marcus Krum, Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2020
• The game will be not be rescheduled and will be declared a no contest.
  — Maria Sestito, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
• In a tweet, the tournament said the game was declared a no contest.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2021
• The game scheduled for Nov. 28 will not be made up and has been declared a no contest.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2020
• In the war of signage, there’s no contest along the back roads of Wisconsin.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2020
• The judge could have required that Hobbs plead no contest, meaning the charges could stay on his record.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2022
• Dix pled no contest to two felonies in two cases brought against her.
  — Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
• The matchup, which was to be held in Laramie, Wyo., will be declared a no contest and will not be rescheduled.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
• Jones pleaded no contest to those felony charges on Nov. 13, court records show.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• Games that cannot be rescheduled will be declared a no contest.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sanchez retired from the department last year and pleaded no contest to the grand theft charges in June.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
• Sheen pleaded no contest to the charges and was placed on two years’ probation.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Per Big Ten rules, the game is canceled and considered a no contest.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
• What was billed as a battle of superstars turned out to be no contest at all.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2021
• Only in the event neither team could compete would the game be declared a no contest.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2021
• Three other men have also pled no contest for their roles in the attack.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
• The deal meant the man pleaded no contest to manslaughter and that a charge of possessing a weapon would be dropped.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• If both teams are unavailable, the game would be declared a no contest.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
• In June 2020, Brown pleaded no contest to the charges and received two years of probation.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2022
• In the early ‘90s, Samartaney pleaded guilty to killing one of his friends and pleaded no contest to killing his teenage son.
  — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Reubens denied the charges in a statement, then pleaded no contest, avoiding a charge on his record.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 31 July 2023
• Peck pleaded no contest to charges of committing a lewd act against a child and was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
• If it can’t be rescheduled later in the season, it will be declared a no contest.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• Mason pleaded no contest to nine felony charges of video voyeurism.
  — Elliot Tritto, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
• He was sentenced to two years in prison after striking a deal to plead no contest to a single felony charge in March 2021.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• The other driver — Kyle Harrison, who was 23 at the time of the crash — pleaded no contest to charges including vehicular manslaughter.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
• Last year, Kory York, a Louisiana state trooper, pleaded no contest to eight counts of misdemeanor battery and was placed on probation for one year.
  — Sara Ruberg, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025