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tournament

A tournament is a series of games until a winner is decided. A lot of sports fans are looking forward to the college basketball championship tournament.

tournament

a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

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Simple sentences

Tom is in charge of this year's tennis tournament.
That athlete won three times in a row in this tournament.
Twenty teams entered the tournament.
We have a soccer tournament in May.
People buy these tickets many months before the tournament starts.
His leg will prevent him from participating in a tennis tournament.
Who do you think will win the tournament?
He won the first prize at the chess tournament.
Tom is out of the tournament.
Finland eliminated Russia from the Winter Olympics hockey tournament.
Tom won the fishing tournament.
Tom only got first place in the chess tournament because Mary wasn't there.
Although Portugal eventually won the football tournament, there was no doubt that the Iceland team had acquitted itself well.
Tom said he'd be very surprised if Mary didn't win the tournament.
Best of luck in your tournament.
For sure, she'll win the championship in the tournament.
Tom dropped out of the tournament.
Don't get such a big head just because you won the tournament. There's many others in the world who are just as good as you.
All the tournament's matches will be streamed live on the internet.
Tom was sad when his country's team was eliminated from the tournament.
In the 2017 Indian Wells tournament, Nadal is projected to play Federer in the fourth round. This is the first time since 2004 they can meet before the QFs.

Movie subtitles

Dear Mr. Lubitsch, We invite you to our tournament this evening.
I was availing myself an early morning practice for the caddy's tournament, sir.
We'll hold an archery tournament!
I'm leaving for Norwich right after the tournament anyway.. soyoumaydowhat youplease with him.
We played in a foursome in last year's golf tournament.
I've never seen the Forest Hills tournament.
And I was told that in the tournament at Acre Richard of England led five of his Saxon knights into combat and vanquished all who challenged them.
Look for me at the tournament and pray for me.
I suppose it was some other guy who went at the singles in the hospital bowling tournament!
How did Bill make out in the tournament?
A plague take the tournament.
The shuffleboard tournament.
I wanted to play in the covered-court tournament. and as usual, she didn't want me to go.
After that, she seemed keen that I play in the tournament after all.
I'm leaving for Norwich immediately after the tournament anyway so you may do what you please with him.
A tournament of song?
Don't you remember me? We played in a foursome in last year's golf tournament.
We're not traveling today because he's holding games. some sort of tournament on the plain.
I've never seen the Forest Hills tournament. I look forward to it.
We'd like to remind you that today is only the first day of four days of tournament play.
Otherwise we skip the whole tournament.
He wants to come to the tournament.
We got her entered in a tournament here tomorrow.
I suppose it was some other guy who entered the singles in the hospital bowling tournament.
I'm leaving for Norwich right after the tournament anyway.
If Cecil is that quick at the tournament, Darlington had best look to his laurels.
And I was told that in the tournament at Acre Richard of England led five of his Saxon knights into combat and vanquished all who challenged them. The one who fell was named De Bracy. And another, Bois-Guilbert.
I wanted to play in a covered-court tournament and, as usual, she didn't want me to go.
After that, she seemed rather keen that I play in the tournament.
I didn't go to that tournament after all.
Perry is playing in a tennis tournament.
The bridge tournament.
We're going to have a tournament.
I have a bocce tournament tomorrow.

News and current affairs

With the final stage of the World Cup approaching, now is a good opportunity for a mid-tournament appraisal.
Even in Washington, where I arrived at the beginning of the tournament, I was greeted at the airport by television screens showing the game.
As I watched the Croatia-Australia match early in the tournament, I surprised myself, too, as I realized that my emotions were with the Australian team, whatever that could mean, given that there were so many Croatians playing for Australia.
Following the 2013 riots over the amount of money being spent on the 2014 soccer World Cup, protests continued up to, and even during, the tournament in June.
The different stages of a televised soccer (football) tournament, for example, are complementary for viewers and substitutes for advertisers.
In the case of Brazil, state and local officials had other things on their mind in 2014: hosting the World Cup soccer tournament in June and July and winning elections later in the year.
Perhaps North Korea wanted to disrupt the World Cup tournament that South Korea was co-hosting with Japan and in which South Korea's national team had achieved stunning success.
Second-tier chess players who are good teachers often earn as much as top tournament players - or more.
The same is true of all games played at the final tournament, not only those among the top eight national teams.
After France barely survived the tournament's first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.
Although we don't exchange blows like men, we are just as passionate, especially since the world's most famous tournament is being played on our continent.
Many millions more Americans watched the World Cup soccer tournament in English and Spanish than ever before.
US tennis fans watch tennis wherever it is played all over the world, and the US audience for golf does not plummet when a tournament is played in the sport's birthplace, Scotland.
Nor was it a fluke: Egypt is consistently the most successful national team in the Africa Cup tournament, winning it five times previously.
Instead, Sudan (along with Benin) was the tournament's least successful team, losing all three games that it played.
Then, last August, during the Asian Cup soccer tournament, Chinese fans in Chongqing, Jinan, and Beijing hurled insults at the Japanese team - and bottles at their team bus.
Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world's top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans are in a similar situation with education.
This will lead to a further escalation of Western sanctions: restrictions on gas exports, general export restrictions, suspension from the World Trade Organization, withdrawal of the FIFA 2018 World Cup soccer tournament, and so on.
Brazilians are in a funk, too, and they are directing their ire against the ruling Workers' Party, with the ongoing World Cup soccer tournament and plans for the 2016 Olympics serving as prominent symbols of its leadership.
At the tournament's start, my girlfriends and I could not seem to agree on which team to support.

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