Example sentences for: pursuit

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

  • For me, the treatment has the redeeming feature of describing conflicting arguments about origins: too often compilers of such books feel obliged to take a position on one side or the other in pursuit of “the truth,” seldom attainable in matters of language.

  • Murdoch may be a modernist in his pursuit of a global techno-empire, but he's also an anachronism, a throwback to Hearst and Pulitzer.

  • While others chase semen-stained cocktail dresses and sweat through the Beltway summer humidity in pursuit of leaks, we sit back in our breezy Pacific Northwest aerie, sipping a microbrew, observing, analyzing, synthesizing, and generally thinking great thoughts.

  • Like the pioneers of the Old West, Pooh is endlessly greedy, and he is cunning in pursuit of that greed.

  • Most tourists head for Datong in pursuit of history and art, and they are not disappointed.


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