OPPORTUNE in a Sentence

Learn OPPORTUNE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
361 example sentences for OPPORTUNE, such as:
1. But there never seemed an opportune moment.
2. Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
3. He made full use of the opportunity to travel.
4. The timing of our statement is very opportune.
5. Tonight will be my first opportunity to meet her.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of OPPORTUNE
opportune
 a.  timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In the course of business she could find many opportune times for conversations without it appearing to anyone that she was seeking him out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
2  But there never seemed an opportune moment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
3  Something always drew him toward those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
4  It would be difficult and even impossible to imagine any result more opportune than the actual outcome of this battle.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VII
5  The bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
6  Showers mingled with thunder shook the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and opportune uproar.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
7  You come to give me the benefit of your sober judgement at a most opportune time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
8  She knew also that he was presenting her with just the opportunity she wanted for opening the conversation without revealing her true purpose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  They were practically alone and he might never get another such opportunity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  It was not often that Mr. McRae had the opportunity to talk about war, the way his women folks shushed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  You wanted to dance and I gave you the opportunity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Even John Wilkes, visibly proud of his son, had no opportunity for quiet conversation with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  But there had been no opportunity to say them, and she knew now that perhaps she would never have the chance to say them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Suellen never missed the opportunity to leave the plantation and give herself airs among people who did not know she weeded the garden and made beds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  He fretted until Scarlett who had only been waiting for such an opportunity laid a cool hand on his forehead and said: "Now, sweetheart, I shall be vexed if you take on so."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
2  I waited, hoping for an opportune moment to discuss the possibility of a raise.
3  The timing of our statement is very opportune.
4  Sally looked at her father struggling to balance his checkbook; clearly this would not be an opportune moment to ask him for a raise in her allowance.
5  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
6  There must be an opportunity for both sides to air their grievances.
7  The birds also attack crops when the opportunity arises.
8  They were also given the opportunity to do some operation.
9  When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
10  Tonight will be my first opportunity to meet her.
11  The scheme offers an ideal opportunity for youngsters to get training.
12  He made full use of the opportunity to travel.
13  The trip to Paris will be an ideal opportunity to practise my French.
14  Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
15  Don't corrupted themselves, life is not only an opportunity, try to.