1.   College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game.

2.   He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers.

3.   Miss Colombia won the beauty contest.

4.   Most interviewers did their jobs like judges at a beauty contest.

5.   Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests.

6.   She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.

7.   Fortunately, he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests.

8.   A love-struck swain, intent on sating his unrequited love, enters a beauty contest in which the target of his amour is also a contestant.