INITIATIVE in a Sentence

Learn INITIATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
116 example sentences for INITIATIVE, such as:
1. The initial letters alone are given.
2. I wish my son would show more initiative.
3. He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
4. State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.
5. He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INITIATIVE
initiative
 n.  readiness to embark on bold new ventures
 n.  the first of a series of actions
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of every other human character, than the Upper.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
2  He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
4  His indignation was mounting, now that the initial hurt was subsiding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Chris wanted those with initial letters in the corner, because he had never seen any before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
6  He felt vaguely that death must make a first choice of the men who were nearest; the initial morsels for the dragons would be then those who were following him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  The initial letters alone are given.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  He regretted his initial plan, which had at first seemed so practical to him.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Two First Cross-examination
9  also now understood that the court was ashamed to summon those it accused to the attic of this building for the initial hearing, and why it preferred to impose upon them in their own homes.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
10  When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her understand that she had spoken the initial letter of the thing he wanted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
11  First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
12  "Here," he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
13  By the kings command, Maitre Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial letter and to call himself Gorbeau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
14  The chief initial source of this was labor in the army, and his pay and bounty as a soldier.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
15  ceases to be the initials of an individual and becomes the badge of a society.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoted to manager after a year.
2  Britain and Ireland announce a new peace initiative that would separate political talks from the disarmament issue.
3  Lawyers for Attorney General Dan Lungren argued that the initiative did not impose a lifetime ban.
4  I wish my son would show more initiative.
5  It is hoped that the government's initiative will bring the strike to an end.
6  The community centre was set up under the auspices of a government initiative.
7  The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger.
8  The research initiative is being undertaken by a group of environmentalists.
9  It is a very hierarchical company and there's little place for individual initiative.
10  It is hoped that the industry will respond positively to this new initiative.
11  Women frequently say that they feel awkward taking the initiative in sex.
12  He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
13  State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.
14  I did not designate Mr. Irons as my representative, and as far as I know he acted on his own initiative and spoke for himself.
15  The child displayed great initiative in going to fetch apple from shelf.