ADVANCEMENT in a Sentence

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306 example sentences for ADVANCEMENT, such as:
1. He cared little for social advancement.
2. He who does not advance falls backward.
3. His advancement to major came two years ago.
4. The trip calls for careful advance planning.
5. She disengaged the film advance mechanism on the camera.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ADVANCEMENT
advancement
 n.  the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
 n.  encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He was too busy, too practical, and above all too much preoccupied with his own advancement, to indulge in such unprofitable asides.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
2  Kennicott's land-deals were both financial advancement and favorite game.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  The race regardless of advancement is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  He had met Montel, who was doing everything toward his advancement.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
5  My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
6  Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain degree of advancement.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
8  Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Those who constantly direct attention to the Negro youth's moral weaknesses, and compare his advancement with that of white youths, do not consider the influence of the memories which cling about the old family homesteads.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
10  He knew that the people in the North who gave money gave it for the purpose of helping the whole cause of Negro civilization, and not merely for the advancement of any one school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
11  Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles of the young ones.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
12  Well, you have this excuse: advancement, the opening campaign, the opportunity which I offer you--so much for the world.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
13  I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  He foresaw so clearly the consequences of this imprudence that with considerable reluctance he decided to ask Andrew Hale for a small advance on his load.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  The latter did not know how to begin, but at length he managed to bring out his request for an advance of fifty dollars.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1  His advancement to major came two years ago.
2  None of us should ever underestimate the degree of difficulty women face in career advancement.
3  He cared little for social advancement.
4  Money thus facilitates trade and specialisation, two key conditions for the economic advancement of any society or nation.
5  John left his position with the company because he felt that advancement was based on nepotism rather than ability.
6  Our greatest tool for advancement is also our greatest push towards downfall: intelligence.
7  It is wrong to assume that technological advance brings a higher quality of life.
8  She was hired to advance for a best-selling author.
9  I'd advise buying your tickets well in advance if you want to travel in August.
10  The trip calls for careful advance planning.
11  He who does not advance falls backward.
12  Because of the popularity of the region, it is advisable to book hotels or camp sites in advance.
13  She disengaged the film advance mechanism on the camera.
14  We feared that an advance on the capital would soon follow.
15  That is a major advance in the concept of public service of which the Government are rightly proud.