PROGRESSIVE in a Sentence
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288 example sentences for PROGRESSIVE, such as:
1. This is a progressive course in English study.
2. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
3. There is often a progressive loss of sight in old.
4. An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
5. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
2. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
3. There is often a progressive loss of sight in old.
4. An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
5. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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Meanings and Examples of PROGRESSIVE
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progressive
n. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
a. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.
2 Like the governor, whom he had come down to pass judgment upon, he was reckoned a progressive; and though he was already a bigwig, he was not like the majority of bigwigs.
3 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
4 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
5 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
6 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
7 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
8 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.
9 Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
10 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?
11 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
12 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
13 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.
14 To dare; that is the price of progress.
15 An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 The approach taken by US courts has been more progressive than that in Britain.
2 These weaknesses negated his otherwise progressive attitude towards the staff.
3 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
4 There is often a progressive loss of sight in old.
5 This is a progressive course in English study.
6 It was a progressive disease and he would suffer more and more.
7 Public employee unions are demanding in blunt terms that Democrats make the tax code more progressive.
8 It aims to promote the development of a progressive economics community in Canada.
9 Still, this effective theatrical ploy – so very Scandinavian and socially progressive – has achieved its goal: People have been talking, and various titles have been trotted out to shock and illuminate.
10 Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
11 No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
12 No matter how many mistakes you make or how slowly you progress, you are already ahead of those who never tried.
13 We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
14 We must not allow reaction to stand in the way of progress.
15 Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.