ADVENTUROUS in a Sentence

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240 example sentences for ADVENTUROUS, such as:
1. She had some exciting adventures in Egypt.
2. Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful.
3. Sailing across the Atlantic on a raft was an adventure.
4. His early training predisposed him to a life of adventure.
5. Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ADVENTUROUS
adventurous
 a.  willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
Classic Sentence: (207 in 14 pages)
1  They stood silent for a while after this, smiling at each other like adventurous children who have climbed to a forbidden height from which they discover a new world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  It was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not adventurous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
4  The chicks had nearly all gone under the mother-hens, only one or two last adventurous ones still dibbed about in the dryness under the straw roof shelter.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Here was something to do: here was some one to see, and a charmingly adventurous way to see him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
6  The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
7  Jo liked the prospect and was eager to be gone, for the home nest was growing too narrow for her restless nature and adventurous spirit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
8  Laurie devoted himself to the little ones, rode his small daughter in a bushel-basket, took Daisy up among the bird's nests, and kept adventurous Rob from breaking his neck.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
9  I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  When we three males were left alone after dinner, he got into a more adventurous state.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
11  Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  It was evident that without suspecting it, and actuated solely by their chivalrous and adventurous character, our three friends had just rendered a service to someone the cardinal honored with his special protection.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
13  Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
14  As far as could be judged of a man sheathed in armour, the new adventurer did not greatly exceed the middle size, and seemed to be rather slender than strongly made.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  He soon made ducks and drakes of what I gave him, sank lower and lower, married another woman, I believe, became an adventurer, a gambler, and a cheat.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Tom's younger brother Sid was already through with his part of the work, for he was a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways.
2  The picture he threw on the screen of himself must have been something else again - seasoned sailor, hardy adventurer, and who knows what else?
3  He was great romantic hero of his century, an adventurer, and after his death in 1967, he became a symbol of revolution on t-shirts and walls of student homes.
4  When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
5  'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
6  However, her main forte is the young readers 'novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help.
7  To impress his friends, Tom invented apocryphal tales of his adventures in the big city.
8  John wanted to regale us with tales of his adventures in Africa.
9  All the children listened to his adventures with eager attention.
10  She had some exciting adventures in Egypt.
11  Sailing across the Atlantic on a raft was an adventure.
12  His early training predisposed him to a life of adventure.
13  I set off for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year.
14  Nothing will ever completely replace playing the game I love, however I feel like I'm starting a new adventure.
15  Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure.