ENTERPRISING in a Sentence

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97 example sentences for ENTERPRISING, such as:

1. An enterprise should encourage innovation.
2. The Act will encourage private enterprise.
3. Some enterprising girls organized a sponsored walk.
4. They are determined to carry forward the enterprise.
5. The programme is a joint enterprise with the National Business School.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTERPRISING
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enterprising
 a.  full of initiative; marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  He was a grain merchant and cattle-buyer, and was generally considered the most enterprising business man in our county.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
2  First they took out the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed to Jurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country like America.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  The enterprising newspaper reporter had taken all this information to his family, and told how they had received it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
4  They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
6  Brave, rash, and enterprising, this was not the first time he had risked his life in such attempts.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
7  She knew her brother-in-law to be a worthy gentleman, a bold hunter, an intrepid player, enterprising with women, but by no means remarkable for his skill in intrigues.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
8  The enterprising lady followed the mumming company through the gate in the white paling, and stood before the open porch.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
9  He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
10  The effect of this was to render easy any enterprise in which the senate or great men of Rome thought fit to engage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI.
11  Again, at the siege of Veii, we find the Roman commanders making use of religion to keep the minds of their men well disposed towards that enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
12  ; thinking that were he to succeed in getting these others to take part with him, his enterprise would be easier.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII.
13  The faintest sound, as of the cackling of the geese in the Capitol, the least departure from some ordinary routine, the most trifling mistake or error, mars the whole enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
14  In compliance with which advice he went on this new enterprise with a vast army.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
15  In the beginning of his reign he attacked Granada, and this enterprise was the foundation of his dominions.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  By coming up with fresh ways to market the company's products, Mike proved himself to be an enterprising businessman.
2  You could see one of the worst qualities of life on the planet, but in this inferno you could see an enterprising population that worked like ants.
3  Some enterprising girls organized a sponsored walk.
4  The programme is a joint enterprise with the National Business School.
5  They are determined to carry forward the enterprise.
6  Don't forget this is a commercial enterprise - we're here to make money.
7  The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture.
8  We need someone with enterprise and imagination to design a marketing strategy.
9  The Act will encourage private enterprise.
10  An enterprise should encourage innovation.
11  Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.
12  The music festival is a new enterprise which we hope will become an annual event.
13  The team leader will be the most important factor in this difficult enterprise.
14  I believe that if an act wants to run a fan club, it should be a service rather than a profit-making enterprise.
15  Free enterprise, he argued, was compatible with Russian values and traditions.