PURSUE in a Sentence

Learn PURSUE 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.
243 example sentences for PURSUE, such as:
1. She wishes to pursue a medical career.
2. She plans to pursue a career in politics.
3. To lose to pursue, to marry marry a happiness.
4. Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
5. He is determined to go abroad to pursue his further study.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PURSUE
pursue
 v.  follow in or as if in pursuit
 v.  carry further or advance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
3  Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
6  I was unable to pursue the train of thought; a thousand feelings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
7  Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
8  But my plan was unsettled, and I wandered many hours round the confines of the town, uncertain what path I should pursue.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of Wemmick's suggestion, which it might be worth while to pursue.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  I want," she said, "to pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you were last here, and to show you that I am not all stone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
12  Herbert assented to all this, and we went out immediately after breakfast to pursue our investigations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
13  Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
14  He seemed to pursue her figure through the narrative, and to let every other shape go by him, as if it were nothing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
15  It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Accept what was and what is, and you'll have more positive energy to pursue what will be.
2  Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
3  She wishes to pursue a medical career.
4  After university she was still undecided as to what career she wanted to pursue.
5  She plans to pursue a career in politics.
6  He said Japan would continue to pursue the policies laid down at the London summit.
7  Freedom to pursue extra-curricular activities is totally unrestricted.
8  To lose to pursue, to marry marry a happiness.
9  The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
10  We need to decide soon what marketing strategy we should pursue for these new products.
11  He is determined to go abroad to pursue his further study.
12  Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to pursue a program of passive resistance as he felt that it was more effective than violence.
13  The iPhone 5 is an obvious target for Apple fans to pursue.
14  They want the same opportunity to pursue their dreams as everyone else who lives in affluent school districts.
15  They will bring together 165 researchers from 19 countries to pursue a range of innovative strategies.