Example sentences for: pursuits

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

  • Yet no sooner had Adams undertaken his pursuits as an attorney than his father, recently elected as the nation's first vice president, informed him that George Washington had named the young man minister to the Netherlands.

  • A friend who has seen her book proposal reports that it is classic Joyce: gossipy, un-prudish, and self-indulgent, with very little information about Salinger's literary pursuits.

  • They feed their resultant emptiness with manic, life-threatening, competitive pursuits that become substitutes for their sense of self worth.

  • The Los Angeles Times goes with the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that police are generally shielded from liability for deaths or injuries caused by their high-speed pursuits.

  • They knew how to get at the truth without any interference from civil libertarians seeking to burden their single-minded pursuits with such as privacy, bodily integrity, fairness, and civility.


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