Example sentences for: promise

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

  • To lure Christmas shoppers, the malls promise tree lightings and other "sights and sounds of the holidays."

  • If the discovery translates to the human brain (the Times is optimistic), it will revolutionize our neurobiological understanding of memory--which might turn out to be a long string of continually produced neurons that record experience through time like a tape recorder--and promise cures for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and stroke-induced dementia.

  • Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.

  • The pledge ends with an affirmation of the essential promise of our democracy - "with liberty and justice for all."

  • This policy ignores the lesson of the S and L crisis in the 1980s and of the current Asian imbroglio: the promise of complete protection contributes to bank failures by encouraging risky bank ventures.


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