Example sentences for: adventure

How can you use “adventure” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Start with something plausible--say, a new woman claiming to have had an adventure with the president--and work your way up to the outbreaks of major wars, visits by extraterrestrials, people who actually believe a browser shouldn't be integrated into the operating system, and similar hard-to-believe phenomena.

  • Mirror ). A few gripe that the series is just a formula boys' boarding-school adventure story gussied up with magical trappings (see last week's discussion in Slate 's ), but young readers don't seem to care: According to Bloomsbury, the book's U.K. publisher, Azkaban broke an opening-day sales record--16,853 copies in the first 100 minutes on sale.

  • A submarine trip will appeal to most people and Submarine Adventure will take you under the ocean on a 45-minute trip in their yellow submarine.

  • A younger brother, inexplicably drawn by Dana's grim novel Two Years before the Mast (1840), had run away to a life of adventure at sea, and their father ordered Fitzedward to bring him home.

  • The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.


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