races

/ (ˈreɪsɪz) /

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the races a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting

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How to use races in a sentence

This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
The Golden State Preps for the ‘Red Wedding’ of Senate Races|David Freedlander|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And, of course, it was against the mixing of the races that the music inevitably provoked.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.
Why the Left Loves Warren, But Won’t Swoon for Sanders|David Freedlander|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Overall, young African Americans are killed by cops 4.5 times more often than people of other races and ages.
The 14 Teens Killed by Cops Since Michael Brown|Nina Strochlic|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And now many of those Democrats are heading home after long careers in public life, with some losing easily winnable races.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy to Democrats: Grow a Pair|David Freedlander|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A like indifference to the position of a picture, and of a letter, has been observed among backward races.
Children's Ways|James Sully
What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The human species,” Charles Lamb says, “is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Our dragoman kept at bay all the clamouring crowd of porters, guides and nondescripts of all colours and races that besieged us.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
In all savage races it has been recognised and dreaded, this phenomenon styled 'Wehr Wolf,' but to-day it is rare.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood

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