VIE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for VIE, such as:

1. Each one vied with the rest in saluting her as Madame la Baronne.
2. Politicians vie with one another, competing for donations and votes.
3. From all sides, in eagerness to see, the people of Troy run streaming in, and vie in jeers at their prisoner.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vie
 v.  strive for victory or superiority; contend; compete
Classic Sentence:
1  Helene's box was filled and surrounded from the stalls by the most distinguished and intellectual men, who seemed to vie with one another in their wish to let everyone see that they knew her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX
2  They entered a very plain house, for the door was only of silver, and the ceilings were only of gold, but wrought in so elegant a taste as to vie with the richest.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
3  From all sides, in eagerness to see, the people of Troy run streaming in, and vie in jeers at their prisoner.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  And hence it happens that the citizens of such States vie with one another in whatever tends to promote public or private well-being; in both of which, consequently, there is a wonderful growth.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
5  They took the clothes out of the waggon, put them in the water, and vied with one another in treading them in the pits to get the dirt out.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
6  Suddenly the beast extended its arms, or rather legs, and inclosed him in a grasp that might have vied with the far-famed power of the "bear's hug" itself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
7  Each one vied with the rest in saluting her as Madame la Baronne.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Example Sentence:
1  Politicians vie with one another, competing for donations and votes.