Example sentences for: pursue

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

  • The National Security Council was created in 1947 largely as a result of lobbying from the Pentagon for a forum where the military could object if they thought the State Department was setting national objectives that the United States did not have the wherewithal to pursue.

  • Although they were expected to handle large caseloads almost immediately, they were also freer to pursue an issue area and develop themselves professionally through that pursuit.

  • (In fact, if we enjoy having beautiful neighbors, we might want to subsidize beauty rather than tax it; you can't always pursue two goals--in this case income redistribution and an attractive population--simultaneously.)

  • As this is a rather specialized work, we cannot devote the space to the full description that it merits among those who pursue its concerns.

  • A generation of change in the South has allowed prosecutors to pursue a string of civil rights-era violent crimes, including the racially-motivated 1963 bombing of a church in downtown Birmingham that killed four girls, the NYT reports.


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