vying's Usage Examples:

He showed, while making the Suez Canal, what a gift he possessed for levying the pacific armies he conducted.

conferred on the city various privileges relating to the holding of fairs and markets, and the levying of customs; and by a royal charter of 1452 he gave it pre-eminence over the other burghs.

He paused, looked ironically straight into Balashev's eyes, and said in a quiet voice:7, 8, where Job is ironically described as vying with the first man, who was "brought forth before the hills" (cp.

The king originally had only the right of levying the taille in places where he had retained the exercise of the haute justice.

Under the Constitution Act the Commonwealth is given the control of the postal and telegraph departments, public defence and several other services, as well as the power of levying customs and excise duties; its powers of taxation are unrestricted, but so far no taxes Dave been imposed other than those just mentioned.

With so many attractions and businesses vying for the attention of tourists, it is easy to understand why many different vacation packages have been created in order to lure tourists to specific destinations.

It has the care of the county property, manages the county business, builds and repairs the county buildings, apportions and orders the levying of taxes, and establishes the election precincts.

The seventh article provided that bountied sugars (sucres primes) must be excluded from import into the territories of the signatory powers, by absolute prohibition of entry or by levying thereon a special duty in excess of the amount of the bounties, from which duty sugars coming from the contracting countries, and not bountyfed, must be free.

What they did was to rove about in hordes, plundering or levying blackmail.

You'll need to stand out since you're vying for attention in a room full of people.

Synonyms:

run off, rival, compete, play, match, run, try for, touch, contend, go for, equal, emulate, race,

Antonyms:

incommensurate, incomparable, refrain, linger, stay in place,