How to use "tournament" in a sentence

Well, I went into the hotel to watch them, but it was a special chess tournament and it cost five dollars to watch, so I didn't go into the chess room.

'Aren't you in the tournament?' he asked.

Two days later we were on our way to Los Angeles, to a big chess tournament.

We were a day or two early for the tournament, and Mr Tribble took me to see some people who were making a film

'We're here for the chess tournament,' said Mr Tribble

'He has to play chess in a tournament tomorrow,' said Mr Tribble

Next day was the big chess tournament at the Beverly Hills Hotel

When she was twelve years old, she played at a tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, but Billie Jean could not be in the group picture of young tennis players

When she won the US Open tournament in 1972, she received 15,000 dollars less than the men's top player, Ilie Nastase

The US Open became the first big tournament to give equal money to its men and women top players

Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the sport's history, was the last big tournament to do this, in 2007

He won the Wimbledon men's tournament in 1939, and he was the world number one tennis player in 1941, 1946 and 1947

In her tennis career, Billie Jean won thirty-nine big tournament titles