PROPITIOUS in a Sentence
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33 example sentences for PROPITIOUS, such as:
1. That feature too is propitious.
2. It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
3. The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.
4. to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor.
5. He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.
2. It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
3. The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.
4. to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor.
5. He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.
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Meanings and Examples of PROPITIOUS
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propitious
a. presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 Taking advantage of the propitious moment, Meg slipped away and ran down to greet her husband with a smiling face and the little blue bow in her hair which was his especial admiration.
2 A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens.
3 That feature too is propitious.
4 The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered.
5 Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.
6 to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor.
7 The day was declining, there was not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
8 He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
9 It had hardly been a propitious beginning, but he had chosen his course, and would show no swerving.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
10 Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
11 Providence is now opposed to them, when I most thought it would be propitious.
12 For some time, I am doubtful of Miss Shepherd's feelings, but, at length, Fate being propitious, we meet at the dancing-school.
13 The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.
14 With many searchings of heart I prayed the woodland nymphs, and lord Gradivus, who rules in the Getic fields, to make the sight propitious as was meet and lighten the omen.
15 But when fortune is not thus propitious to him, he must contrive other means to rid himself of rivals, and must do so successfully before he can accomplish anything.
Example Sentence:
1 They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
2 It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
3 Chloe consulted her horoscope to see whether Tuesday would be a propitious day to dump her boyfriend.
4 The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.
5 In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.