How to Use enterprising in a Sentence

enterprising

adjective

• As an enterprising young reporter, she covered many important stories.
• Some of the most enterprising people in the U.S. are Democrats.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• When that gig ended in 2014, the enterprising Beeks took her show to the web with ListenLocalRadio.com.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
• And that's not all that's in store for the enterprising young McBoatface.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2017
• But the enterprising duo promise to stay out of his way.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2022
• The rest of the country hasn’t been nearly as enterprising.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
• Some enterprising restaurants score the skin with a knife to increase the crisp factor.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Some time after that, an enterprising soul added tomatoes to the mix.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
• Some time after that, an enterprising soul added tomatoes to the mix.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
• Some of the more enterprising among us have secured these and other goods in bulk to sell at higher prices to others.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
• That could open up a role for an enterprising neutral country or some small group of them to try to broker peace.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps a truly enterprising bear could convince the AI to take the bear for a cozy ride while inside the self-driving car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• And key to it all was the enterprising man few remember, Tony Cornero.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Each had a little zinc bar on which the more enterprising proprietors served coffee or a plate of food.
  — Stephen Heyman, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2019
• What’s the point of putting it where some enterprising reporter would invariably find it?
  — Dallas News, 27 July 2022
• There is almost no place on the island where the enterprising scavenger couple couldn't stand a decent chance of adding to their pile.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• There's almost no place on the island where the enterprising scavenger couple couldn't stand a decent chance of adding to their pile.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• So an enterprising group has sprung up on Reddit to hack the game by pasting in better images from Google Maps.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2020
• But even the most enterprising farmers struggled to grow wheat and other crops in the gravelly, sandy soil.
  — Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• The dog traces its roots to ancient Rome, where an enterprising fellow saw a too-hot empty pig’s intestine puff up and got the idea to stuff it with meats.
  — Jane Levere, latimes.com, 4 July 2017
• If an enterprising restaurateur is eager to grill up some insects and make a mint in the West Village, the time has never been riper.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Even the more playful dishes, like tater tots dusted with chaat masala, feel like those clever snacks devised in a pinch by an enterprising home cook.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• This kind of thing may be funny (and again: New Yorkers: so enterprising! so tough!) but this is the reality.
  — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2019
• And in every room, the walls still reveal both their former life as a pipeline and the story of an enterprising young couple seeking a home of their own.
  — Andrea Galyean, azcentral, 15 Mar. 2018
• To help an enterprising farmer establish a farm, the couple decided to offer a free 30-year land lease on up to five acres.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• Maybe some enterprising chef will find the perfect recipe and cooking technique.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• Maybe some enterprising chef will find the perfect recipe and cooking technique.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• This seems like a project an enterprising high school class could get done in one semester and not a reason to delay making our streets safer.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022
• The enterprising Ocampo family started their business as a hole-in-the-wall taco shop in the nearby Lake Plaza building in 2003.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• At the time, Bruceville was a bustling village founded by an enterprising Scotsman named Normand Bruce, a prominent landowner.
  — John Laycock, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024