Prospective

//pɹəˈspɛktɪv//

"Prospective" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The company invited their prospective customers to the party.

Prospective buyers couldn't make heads or tails out of the contract.

Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.

Doctors still do not fully understand sudden infant death syndrome, which I find terrifying as a prospective parent.

We have several prospective new members. I hope they will join us.

The realtor had custom drapes ordered for the house to make it look more appealing to prospective home buyers.

Manufacturers are trying to dazzle prospective buyers with electric propulsion, better performance, comfort, style and better mileage.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco analyzed data gathered in a prospective study of 1,000 advanced, stage III colon cancer patients from across the United States who were enrolled from 1999–2001. The volunteers, from 13 institutions, were evaluated over a period of seven years.

The meeting included an exchange of views on bilateral relations, with particular emphasis on the successful cooperation in the energy sector, especially in renewable energy. The sides also discussed prospective projects in this area.

Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.

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A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China.

And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs,

1668-1690, Josiah Child, A new discourse of trade The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.

What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.

the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective

[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.

Would you like to show the prospective around?

I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.

At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.

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