PURSUIT in a Sentence
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134 example sentences for PURSUIT, such as:
1. He exercises everyday in pursuit of health.
2. She travelled the world in pursuit of her dreams.
3. He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records.
4. People are having to move to other areas in pursuit of work.
5. The quarterback sprinted toward the end zone with Jansen in hot pursuit.
2. She travelled the world in pursuit of her dreams.
3. He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records.
4. People are having to move to other areas in pursuit of work.
5. The quarterback sprinted toward the end zone with Jansen in hot pursuit.
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Meanings and Examples of PURSUIT
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pursuit
n. a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
n. a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1 To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.
2 If such a warning had ever been needful, the years had taught her a salutary lesson, and she flattered herself that she now knew how to adapt her pace to the object of pursuit.
3 All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled water and air.
4 For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.
5 Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
6 As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in hot pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay.
7 Further pursuit was useless; but the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged whales might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask had killed and waifed.
8 Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery.
9 Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit.
10 At the next instant the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across the path in swift pursuit.
11 Before he had, however, proceeded a hundred yards, he met the three foresters already returning from their unsuccessful pursuit.
12 When the party reached the point where the horses had entered the thicket which surrounded the blockhouse, they were evidently at fault, having lost those marks which, until that moment, had directed their pursuit.
13 After which, by the rustling of leaves, and crackling of dried twigs, it was apparent the savages were separating in pursuit of the lost trail.
14 Men, hot and angry in pursuit, were evidently on their footsteps, and each instant threatened their capture, if not their destruction.
15 In another instant several savages were seen rushing into canoes, which were soon dancing over the water in pursuit.
Example Sentence:
1 As long as a person strongly unremittingly in pursuit, he will be able to achieve the purpose of.
2 He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records.
3 The pursuit of a cause of the people, can "dream" doing higher.
4 The quarterback sprinted toward the end zone with Jansen in hot pursuit.
5 Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
6 All success comes from tireless effort and pursuit, and all happiness comes from daily struggle and perseverance.
7 She travelled the world in pursuit of her dreams.
8 Many things make us unhappy because "happiness" is not what we pursuit,but "more happier than others"instead.
9 People are having to move to other areas in pursuit of work.
10 The pursuit of the alternatives can be inhibited by the view that little if anything can be achieved within present resource limits.
11 Their single-minded pursuit of this controversial strategy led to their fall from power.
12 He exercises everyday in pursuit of health.
13 Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long, dogged pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.
14 NASA embodies the pursuit of knowledge in unexplored regions of the universe, as well as the universe of the mind.
15 The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.