How to Use enterprise in a Sentence

enterprise

noun

• He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.
• Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.
• When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise.
• Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.
• This is just part of Bykov’s enterprise, both shining and underground, which also funds medical research and floats the art market.
  — Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• In the broadest sense, this is another example of a business enterprise reacting supinely to the extreme right wing.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• How can an open source enterprise thrive in an organization whose fundamental mission is to collect secrets?
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Has the foreknowledge of a new show helped cushion the loss of Kim and the entire Better Call Saul enterprise from your life?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
• The law was intended to punish mob bosses who didn't commit the lower-level crimes themselves but rather orchestrated the enterprise.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2023
• Republican lawmakers introduced a bill this session that would reduce the business enterprise tax rate.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Because otherwise, the entire enterprise would crumble.
  — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
• Terrorism is a transnational enterprise after all, and per this story the appropriate treaties have to be renegotiated.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• The Democrats on the committee chose Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska, a very reluctant recruit to this enterprise.
  — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The stench of blackmail hangs over the whole enterprise.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• And the way to do that was to establish a new form of enterprise.
  — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• That kind of control is at the heart of the Amazon enterprise.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• As the sun set beyond the pool deck, Rosero laid out his enterprise for me.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• There will still be a huge market for this type of enterprise in the Biden era.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Stern notched $300 in sales the first hour his enterprise was up and running.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
• This has made a full-time role on the show a truly high-stakes enterprise.
  — Kirthana Ramisetti, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
• It wasn't supposed to come to this, but the entire enterprise had been poorly planned from the start.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2018
• The blame game, in this case, isn’t easy to play; pass protection is a 12-man enterprise.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Take a look at this entire enterprise from her point of view.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The big boss might be one bad apple, but the whole enterprise is an apple pie.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
• Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• Then, the fickle weather gods must smile on the enterprise.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• Put on the debt and is has an enterprise value of $18 billion.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 July 2024
• As the sun and Uranus align, thinking outside the box takes a creative enterprise to new heights.
  — USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
• The strategic joint enterprise was first announced last year.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024