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1. They were the pioneers of the American West.
2. John Whitney was a pioneer of computer animation.
3. And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pioneer land.
4. The surgeons of this hospital pioneer organ transplants.
5. The school has won awards for its pioneering work with the community.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIONEER
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pioneer
 n.  originator; a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pioneer land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot rolls Carol seized on Mrs. Champ Perry, the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  "This is a useful market-center, an interesting pioneer post, but it is not a home for me," meditated the stranger Carol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
5  Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
6  Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
7  To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, during its pioneer period of struggle and conflict.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild, halcyon days.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
9  You may look upon me simply as an irregular pioneer, who goes in front of the regular forces of the country.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
10  A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians, only a generation away from pioneers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  But we country folks will go back a hundred years like the pioneers who had little cabins and just scratched a few acres--and barely existed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  They are pioneers, these sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-operative leagues.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty.
2  He went west as pioneer with only the possessions he could carry with him.
3  The surgeons of this hospital pioneer organ transplants.
4  In a blog post "Keep the Internet free and open", Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, whose current role is vice-president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, highlighted his concerns.
5  John Whitney was a pioneer of computer animation.
6  Leo W. Buss in a pioneering monograph has explored the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms in great detail.
7  Reines has also been engaged in pioneering experiments probing decay modes of the proton.
8  The school has won awards for its pioneering work with the community.
9  To be an American today, we must examine the values that we inherit from the pioneers, and how they relate to the future of our nation in the world.
10  In his speech, the president will extol the astronauts, calling them the pioneers of the Space Age.
11  A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it.
12  If the track we tread nowadays is smooth and easy, that is because of the pioneers who have gone before us.
13  They were the pioneers of the American West.
14  The pioneers went west across North America, cutting down forests and planting new crops.
15  The young pioneers lived in a little log cabin in the mountains during the summer camping.