PROGRESS in a Sentence
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288 example sentences for PROGRESS, such as:
1. To know one's self is true progress.
2. They meet monthly to discuss progress.
3. Fear of change is an obstacle to progress.
4. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
5. An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
2. They meet monthly to discuss progress.
3. Fear of change is an obstacle to progress.
4. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
5. An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
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Meanings and Examples of PROGRESS
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progress
v. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
n. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2 Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3 I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4 As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
5 Both were susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress which is accomplished in the direction of evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
6 There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
7 Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
8 If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
9 This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10 To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
11 Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
12 To dare; that is the price of progress.
13 An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
14 A light troubled by smoke, progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this tender and serious spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15 All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
2 No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
3 No matter how many mistakes you make or how slowly you progress, you are already ahead of those who never tried.
4 We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
5 We must not allow reaction to stand in the way of progress.
6 Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.
7 The argument needs to progress beyond the simple assertion that criminals are made not born.
8 To know one's self is true progress.
9 All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
10 The East and the West can work together for their mutual benefit and progress.
11 The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
12 The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
13 Fear of change is an obstacle to progress.
14 Economic factors determine the progress which a society can make.
15 They meet monthly to discuss progress.