Productive

//pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv//

"Productive" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Tobacco smoke is productive of cancer.

The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.

This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.

Americans spend most of their lives working, being productive.

I had a very productive day of cooking yesterday; I made soup, biscuits, and two pies.

All-nighters are never as productive as they seem.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

After hours of browsing TV Tropes, Lyle could predict the ending of any show. This gave him a distaste for entertainment that, in a roundabout way, enabled him to make time for a more productive life.

The author is seventy but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.

He needs a more productive outlet for his anger.

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Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous concocted out of gigantic and enormous), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ginormously) can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in -ly, they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with hard, fast, etc.

a productive set

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