Enterprising

"Enterprising" in a Sentence (12 examples)

He is young and inexperienced, but quite enterprising.

Gabrielle, a striking 6'1" woman, was tired of enterprising young men asking her how the weather was up there.

Tom is an enterprising young man.

Are you enterprising?

Tom is quite enterprising.

If someone, because of his love of a forest, walks there half of every day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, chopping down that forest and making the earth bald before its time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

When Mu, the Motherland, became overcrowded, or, among her great navigators, some ambitious and enterprising company found new and available lands, a colonial development was started. These emigrant children of Mu were called Mayas. All who left the Motherland in any direction were called Mayas. Colonization must have started 70,000 years before Mu sank, for there are are Naacal writings in the Orient stating that the Holy Brothers carried the religion and the sciences of the Motherland to the colonies "over 70,000 years ago." One of these colonies was said to "have a population of over 35,000,000 people."

Tom is an enterprising person.

That was enterprising of you.

These days, most New York news dealers are South Asian immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Enterprising émigrés from the region can also be seen running restaurants and other small businesses throughout the Big Apple.

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It was now settled that every body was to be amused by her coarse jest and her odd expressions, and therefore everybody was amused. Moreover, there was another great secret of her popularity; all in her company luxuriated in a little complacent sense of their own superiority,—one of the most agreeable of the senses to indulge. Such was the enterprising individual whose saloon was to-night a representation of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other.

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