PROMISING in a Sentence
Learn PROMISING 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.
342 example sentences for PROMISING, such as:
1. Who the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
2. The commercial future of the company looks very promising.
3. When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.
4. They induced her to take the job by promising editorial freedom.
5. We're trying to bring along several promising young football player.
2. The commercial future of the company looks very promising.
3. When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.
4. They induced her to take the job by promising editorial freedom.
5. We're trying to bring along several promising young football player.
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Meanings and Examples of PROMISING
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promising
a. showing possibility of achievement or excellence
a. full or promise
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2 The chair gave a sort of scurry, reeled on a few more yards, and came to her end amid a particularly promising patch of bluebells.
3 "This is not a very promising beginning," said Mrs. Norris, when Fanny had left the room.
4 In the evening a few circumstances occurred which he thought more promising.
5 Finally, the officers, without troubling themselves very much about Oliver, left the Chertsey constable in the house, and took up their rest for that night in the town; promising to return the next morning.
6 The reddleman looked hopeful; after these words from her his third attempt seemed promising.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
7 Then she hastened off to Eustacia, moved by a much less promising emotion towards her daughter-in-law than she had felt half an hour earlier, when planning her journey.
8 The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
9 It was young Stanley Hopkins, a promising detective, in whose career Holmes had several times shown a very practical interest.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
10 In response to Ellen's letters, pleading with her to come home, she wrote minimizing the dangers of the siege, explaining Melanie's predicament and promising to come as soon as the baby was born.
11 And even now, with the Freedmen's Bureau promising all manner of wonders, they still stuck with their white folks and worked much harder than they ever worked in slave times.
12 She had promised to marry him when she had had no intention of promising.
13 Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
14 The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.
15 She answered the children in a cheerful frame of mind, promising them bonbons, and congratulating them upon their happy find of the little pigs.
Example Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1 She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I reckon she's just stringing me along.
2 A number of promising discoveries had also been made and were now being proved up.
3 Who the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
4 The commercial future of the company looks very promising.
5 I really fail to understand what actuated you to give up such a promising post so hastily.
6 A school has honoured one of its brightest and most promising former pupils.
7 They induced her to take the job by promising editorial freedom.
8 The leader was just double-talking, full of generalities and promising nothing.
9 The Washington rumour mill suggests that the president secured his narrow majority only by promising all sorts of concessions.
10 We're trying to bring along several promising young football player.
11 When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.
12 In 2004 Britain introduced a compulsory citizenship ceremony which required new citizens to take a broader oath promising to respect Britain's rights, freedoms and laws.
13 While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a promising nook in the river-bank and threw in their lines; almost immediately they had reward.
14 President Bush today applauded a promising sign of progress by Iraq's leaders.
15 He was proud of his progeny in general, but regarded George as the most promising of all his children.