COMPETENCE in a Sentence

Learn COMPETENCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

92 example sentences for COMPETENCE, such as:

1. He is competent for the task.
2. They competed for a pretty girl.
3. I am alive, you see, and competent.
4. They competed with skill and tenacity.
5. Their products compete directly with ours.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPETENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
competence
 n.  quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  With the small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment as he could pick up, he travelled from town to town through the United States in quest of his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
4  YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
8  The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
11  Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
12  I am alive, you see, and competent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
13  A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
14  After this incident, and as he reviewed the battle pictures he had seen, he felt quite competent to return home and make the hearts of the people glow with stories of war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
16  He is competent for the task.
17  She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself.
18  I do not speak to the feeble, or think of them: I address only such as are worthy of the work, and competent to accomplish it.
19  And when it comes to helping other national economies actually grow and lift millions of citizens from abject poverty, it is difficult to identify anyone whose words and actions in demonstrating what competent, clean, determined leadership can do have had more impact.
20  The banks have long competed with American Express's charge cards and various store cards.
21  They competed for a pretty girl.
22  They competed with skill and tenacity.
23  Almost all of the 2,500 athletes who competed in Salt Lake came to mingle and party together in the final gathering of the 77 nations who'd contested the Games.
24  Some retailers worry that new regulations will hurt their ability to compete in the marketplace.
25  Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
26  They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
27  The major aviation companies need to cut prices if they are to compete with budget airlines.
28  He was accused of taking the radio station downmarket in order to compete with commercial stations.
29  When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
30  Their products compete directly with ours.