Example sentences for: adventure

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

  • The "recklessness" spin, fueled by talk radio and the Internet, says the Kennedys seek "adventure," "live close to the edge," are "wild" and "addicted to risk," and have a "dangerous streak."

  • Unanimous acclaim for the Australian Booker Prize-winner's update of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations . "An audacious and wholly successful act of writerly reinvention" (Marc Carnegie, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers praise the way Carey re-examines the oppressive aspects of Victorian England and Victorian literature, even as he spins a crack adventure story.

  • 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.

  • To illustrate the Kennedys' penchant for "adventure," "recklessness," and "disaster," the Post compares John's crash to the death of Joe Kennedy Jr., in a World War II bombing mission and to Michael Kennedy's fatal "crash" into a tree while playing football on skis.

  • Where is the grand adventure in politics when the only choices on the table in Washington are an unneeded tax cut or squirreling the surplus away for baby boomers' golden years?


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