PROMOTION in a Sentence

Learn PROMOTION 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.
134 example sentences for PROMOTION, such as:
1. The new job is a promotion for him.
2. He muffed a good opportunity for a promotion.
3. I want a job with good prospects for promotion.
4. If you are successful, you can expect promotion.
5. His promotion to manager was a popular appointment.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROMOTION
promotion
 n.  encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
 n.  the advancement of some enterprise
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Miss Crawford civilly wished him an early promotion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  William was kindly commended and his promotion hoped for.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  I have the infinite satisfaction of congratulating you on your brother's promotion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  She could not have supposed it in the power of any concurrence of circumstances to give her so many painful sensations on the first day of hearing of William's promotion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Assured of his qualifications, Mr. Bumble left the building with a light heart, and bright visions of his future promotion: which served to occupy his mind until he reached the shop of the undertaker.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  They had been a year or two waiting for fortune and promotion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  Fortune came, his prize-money as lieutenant being great; promotion, too, came at last; but Fanny Harville did not live to know it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  She was thus convinced that the reddleman was a mere pis aller in Mrs. Yeobright's mind; one, moreover, who had not even been informed of his promotion to that lowly standing.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
10  He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had promotion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
11  To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward promotion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
12  Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and the sutlers.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
13  Denisov celebrated his promotion to the rank of major, and Rostov, who had already drunk enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor's health.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
14  For an hour she had watched Rhett hold the yarn Melanie was winding for knitting, had noted the blank inscrutable expression when Melanie talked at length and with pride of Ashley and his promotion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  The sergeant, pleased at his promotion, stepped forward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  I feel a bit fenced in at work because my boss won't let me apply for promotion.
2  I want a job with good prospects for promotion.
3  The advertising campaign will be supported by a PR and below-the-line promotion.
4  People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities.
5  We congratulate James on his well-deserved promotion to Chief Executive.
6  If you are successful, you can expect promotion.
7  It's just not realistic to expect a promotion so soon.
8  Celebrating a promotion, I took her to a posh hotel for a cocktail.
9  The new job is a promotion for him.
10  His promotion to manager was a popular appointment.
11  He muffed a good opportunity for a promotion.
12  University teachers must publish regularly to gain promotion.
13  If they want promotion, United have got to pull their socks up.
14  You might as well shoot for the moon and ask for a promotion as well as a raise.
15  If you really want the promotion, you'll have to be more assertive.