Use opportunities in a sentence
Sentences starting with opportunities
- Opportunities for a fortune he did not doubt existed in Missouri, but for himself he saw no better means for livelihood than the mastery of the profession he had rather thoughtlessly entered upon. [5]
Sentences ending with opportunities
- It is the way the world uses its opportunities. [5]
- In fact, he was not thinking much about being good or being bad, but of trying his powers in a world which seemed to offer to him infinite opportunities. [4]
- In short, he was a product of the period since the civil war closed, that great upheaval of patriotic feeling and sacrifice, which ended in so much expansion and so many opportunities. [4]
- But of this she was sure: that she would not be the means of wrecking his opportunities. [9]
- Why waste your opportunities? [9]
- It was what many others of my profession tried to do, and they envied me my opportunities. [9]
- However this question is answered, a strong appeal might be made to the people of leisure to do not only what is expected of them by foreign observers, but to take advantage of their immense opportunities. [4]
- He was biding his time, awaiting individual opportunities. [9]
- The photographer revels here in pictorial opportunities. [4]
- That night in her room she became aware for the first time of another world, restless, fascinating, striving, full of opportunities. [4]
Short sentences using opportunities
- They were opportunities for service. [9]
More example sentences with the word opportunities in them
- The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
- What are we, who have had no opportunities, to sit in judgment on her! [4]
- With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
- I got off very well, considering the opportunities that these other fellows had. [5]
- It is not very likely,--she answered.--I have had one or two opportunities, but I had rather be anything than governess in a rich family. [6]
- He was entering upon the prime years of manhood; golden opportunities confronted him as, indeed, they confronted other men--but Paret had the foresight to take advantage of them. [9]
- Without entering directly upon the consideration of this much-talked-of tendency, I should like to notice the influence upon our present and probable future of the bounty, fertility, and extraordinary opportunities of this still new land. [4]
- When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and "led up" warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait. [5]
- He exposed himself to the sun too much yesterday, but since it came of his earnest desire to learn, and to make this journey as useful as the opportunities will allow, no one seeks to discourage him by fault-finding. [5]
- I was able to avail myself of but few of the many opportunities offered. [9]
- What man of those who, soberly, had put his hand to the Paper which declared the opportunities of generations to come, could measure the Force which he had helped to set in motion. [9]
- The world couldn't think that you could be so careless of your opportunities, or that I would pay for the candle without burning it. [11]
- Somehow, with all the opportunities, the suit of our friend did not advance beyond a certain point. [4]
- They are not the only characteristics; in a reasonably optimistic view, the age is distinguished for unexampled achievements, and for opportunities for the well-being of humanity never before in all history attainable. [4]
- One class sees that the other has lighter or at least different labor, opportunities of travel, a more liberal supply of the luxuries of life, a higher enjoyment and a keener relish of the beautiful, the immaterial. [4]
- It so happened that mutual sympathy--who can say how it was related to Philip?--had drawn them much together, and chance had given them many opportunities for knowing each other. [4]
- But there was still nothing definite, nothing better than a vague discomfort, however poignant, in his half recognition of such facts; and he descended the station stairs at Chatham Square with a sense of the neglected opportunities of painters in that locality. [8]
- With his great shrewdness and business ability, why did he not take advantage of the many opportunities the war gave to make a fortune? [9]
- What had she seen--what did she know--what social opportunities had been hers? [11]
- It is no rarity now--so does law and civilisation provide opportunities for proving their existence. [11]
- She did not presume to say what Jethro's lights and opportunities might have been. [9]
- However, he has plenty of opportunities to feel contented with the way things go--his book is full of them. [5]
- We cannot flatter ourselves, therefore, that under equal laws and opportunities we have rubbed out the saliencies of human nature. [4]
- I have had opportunities to get into several ledges, but refused all but three--expect to back out of two of them. [5]
- Mary's most frequent opportunities of speaking to her friend were just before meals; for at that time no one was watching her, and her grandmother had not forbidden her calling Paula to table. [10]
- I had several opportunities of perceiving how this nervousness was ingrained in her constitution, and how acutely she suffered in striving to overcome it. [14]
- Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. [5]
- Nor were his opportunities for the study of character so meagre as the limit of one family would imply. [4]
- He had few opportunities for serious conversation with her. [5]
- It's like seeing one's opportunities through an iron grating. [9]
- He went at once to Mr. Henderson's office and told him his difficulties, and about Dr. Leigh's work, and the opportunities she would have. [4]
- We had opportunities on other days and in other places to test the pompano. [5]
- They are many of them to be teachers, and those who have seen what opportunities they have to learn will understand their fitness for that exalted office. [6]
- She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, who commanded the Guards. [2]
- He had opportunities of hearing from almost every part of the Union from reliable sources and had not heard of a county in which we had not received accessions from other parties. [7]
- It must be observed, further, that the dogma of equality is not satisfied by the usual admission that one is in favor of an equality of rights and opportunities, but is against the sweeping application of the theory made by the socialists and communists. [4]
- And the Church must awake to her opportunities, to her perception of the Cause. [9]
- No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role. [2]
- First in the list of lost opportunities was that of making my bow to the Queen. [6]
- She had not lacked opportunities to escape. [9]
- I think it is the best one that I have ever had, and there have been opportunities before to get a good photograph. [5]
- It is an intricate and difficult business; there are a thousand avenues of escape and opportunities of concealment. [5]
- Our travelers stopped in Chicago long enough to see that they could make their fortunes there in two week's tine, but it did not seem worth while; the west was more attractive; the further one went the wider the opportunities opened. [5]
- It is knowing how, generally, to make the most of yourself and of your opportunities, and have a nice world to live in, a thrifty, self-helpful, disciplined world. [4]
- Of these opportunities he made excellent use; nothing important met his eye which did not receive that sort of analytical attention which an experienced and philosophical traveler alone can give. [5]
- Quoting the Scriptures, he complimented those who had made the most of their opportunities. [9]
- But Jim would have to become a citizen of Canada, change his flag, and where they meant to go--to the outskirts--there would be few opportunities for the law; and with not enough to do there would be danger. [11]
- But these opportunities have not been plenty in our Southern States; so there you have a prodigious region where the rush for sudden wealth is almost an unknown thing--and has been, from the beginning. [5]
- I was most happy to smooth the way for him, and he came repeatedly after this to see me and express his satisfaction in the opportunities for study he enjoyed at Cambridge. [6]
- Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it. [5]
- Round her were good souls who felt with and for her, many occupations for which she was well-fitted, and which suited her tastes, with ample opportunities of bestowing and winning love. [10]
- I have had good opportunities for observing the extraordinary power of eyesight in the Fuegians. [1]
- Few of his generation became so accomplished as he in the arts of direct exploration; coming straight from the Parisian experts, I have examined many patients with him, and have had frequent opportunities of observing his skill in percussion and auscultation. [3]
- It was the general belief that he chose science for his life-work because it gave unusual opportunities for torture. [11]
- It was doubtless fortunate for this particular lovemaking, though it did not seem so to Philip, that it was very much obstructed by lack of opportunities, and that it was not impaired in its lustre by too much familiarity. [4]
- If I have fooled away any opportunities it was not intentional; I beg to assure you it was not intentional! [5]
- The opportunities for fishing are not surpassed in the country; in fact, they are not even equaled elsewhere. [5]
- Law she had finally approved; it was still respectable; it was a very good waiting-ground for many opportunities, and it did not absolutely bar him from literature, for which she perceived he had a sneaking fondness. [4]
- In a narrow field he had organized his life perfectly, had developed his opportunities, had safeguarded his every move. [11]
- Europe has offered few opportunities for poor Tom, Dick, and Harry; but when she has offered one, there has been no noticeable difference between European eagerness and American. [5]
- Few of our fellow-countrymen have had larger opportunities of seeing distinguished personages than our present minister at the Court of St. James. [6]
- Whilst preening their feathers, they have frequent opportunities for admiring themselves, and of studying how best to exhibit their beauty. [1]
- He had had excellent opportunities for knowing Barbara Golding; for many years she had been governess (and something more) to his sisters Janet, Agnes and Lorna. [11]
- He fancied that everybody attached to himself an exaggerated importance, from the fact of being at the national capital, the center of political influence, the fountain of patronage, preferment, jobs and opportunities. [5]
- Perhaps you may, ere long, have opportunities of seeing Mary more frequently; but, if that should be the case, I must especially request you not to talk of things that may agitate her. [10]
- Its opportunities for enjoyment are numberless. [4]
- But the poorer countrymen do babble somewhat at table, and mistake ribaldry and loquacity for wit and wisdom, and occasionally are cup-shotten; and what wonder, when they who have hard diet and small drink at home come to such opportunities at a banquet! [4]
- They discover and construct and design and invent and organize and give opportunities. [11]
- She has recently come into an open place, and she is distracted by the many opportunities. [4]
- That made, her come down from the top of her nest on the church-spire, and she said that, considering my opportunities, I was not such an aboriginal after all. [11]
- Even at the clubs the talk was about these things and the opportunities for getting them. [4]
- Captain Hall had certainly excellent opportunities of making himself acquainted with the form of the government and the laws; and of receiving, moreover, the best oral commentary upon them, in conversation with the most distinguished citizens. [5]
- The difference between Cauchon and cochon [1] was not noticeable in speech, and so there was plenty of opportunity for puns; the opportunities were not thrown away. [5]
- He was dazzled by the brilliancy of your success, inspired by a civilization which--gave such opportunities. [9]
- Dazzled at first by her own capacity and the opportunities of the foreign field, she took the situation by storm. [4]
- I'm not sure but we shall have to go back to the old idea of considering the churches places of worship, and not opportunities for sewing-societies, and the cultivation of social equality. [4]
- What opportunities lay before him of proving his prowess! [10]
- I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. [5]
- Thy life shall be as thy teachings, brave, pure, truthful, beneficent, hopeful, cheerful, hospitable to all honest belief, all sincere thinkers, and active according to thy gifts and opportunities. [6]
- He alleged it as another proof of the versatility of the American mind, and of the grandeur of institutions and opportunities that let every man grow to his full size, so that any man in America could run the concern if necessary. [8]
- They wandered hither and thither for some time, Hugo watching for opportunities to do a stroke of business, but finding none--so he finally said-- "I see nought to steal; it is a paltry place. [5]
- The peaceful jail and the somewhat tiresome church exhaust one's opportunities for doing good in Baddeck on Sunday. [4]
- Let me scrimp and squeeze all I can, I still can't get ahead as fast as I feel I ought to, with my opportunities. [5]
- From other sources and opportunities a partial idea of it has been obtained. [6]
- Bryant, who had ample opportunities for observation. [1]
- I and my agent had one of these opportunities, and improved it. [5]
- It would be against the interest of society, all its instincts of justice, and the height of cruelty to an individual criminal to put him in prison without limit unless all the opportunities were afforded him for changing his habits radically. [4]
- Gradually Janet had acquired a dread of holidays as opportunities never realized, as intervals that should have been filled with unmitigated joys, and yet were invariably wasted, usually in walks with Eda Rawle. [9]
- And we have a notion that there is something in our atmosphere, or opportunities, or our government, that makes this change more natural and reasonable than it has been anywhere else in history. [4]
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