Use "rivaling" in a sentence

1. The genie asked, as genies will, “What is your first wish?” The government worker thought about it for a second, then replied, “I would like to be rich!” So the genie granted him his wish, and poof the man was surrounded by piles of money rivaling the heaps of even Martha Stewart and Bill Gates

2. This same spirit carried him on to join the fencing team which at that time also bore a stigma which he felt was invalid, and he strived to prove that it was a sport that required skill and concentration rivaling any other athletic competition

3. levels in North America would have risen to levels rivaling and match-

4. was all quite impressive and so very handsome that Lady Jane considered the possibility of it rivaling and even surpassing the tea services of those elegant hotels in the City

5. perhaps the most prolific and dynamic city of the Hellenized world, rivaling Athens as a center of learning and discovery

6. Stalin assumed dictatorial powers on a scale rivaling the biggest tyrants of history

7. But this stranger’s black suit was impeccable, shiny and creased, rivaling the Director’s

8. Word traveled fast about the truck’s impending arrival, the linked whispers of the Camp of the Flies rivaling the thought-speed rumor mill of Warren Township High

9. Randy, never one for rhetoric, laid waste to every course that was placed in front of him, his appetite rivaling those of the ogres

10. Now, look at that clock: it's electric, it runs with an accuracy rivaling the finest chronometers

11. The notes were in the extremes of human sounds; being sometimes melancholy and exquisitely plaintive, even rivaling the melody of birds—and then, by sudden and startling transitions, causing the auditors to tremble by their depth and energy