How to Use promising in a Sentence

promising

adjective

• The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
• The most promising pipeline medicines for PTSD come from the world of psychedelics.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• Where there’s a will, there’s a way; follow the path most promising.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• For the game, the Jayhawks shot 60.3% from the field, a promising sign after the offense had dipped in recent games.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• His showing through four games in Triple-A has been more promising.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023
• The gel is the most promising development in that time, but there's still a long way to go.
  — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
• Vital to the economy For those in the tourism industry, the year was off to a promising start.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Thankfully, the trailers that showed up this week look as promising as any of the best of those.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 29 June 2024
• Up to 10% of the former residents who left have returned, with more promising to come home in the spring.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• What might seem like a quixotic mission has so far had a promising start.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• This time around, the crew is led, in a very promising development, by Lisa Kudrow.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• There's a long way to go until that happens, of course, but Wednesday was a promising first step.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• Other research groups have found promising ways to do this.
  — Linh Vu, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
• Mitja Lo Duca was one of the most promising mountaineers in 1980s Yugoslavia.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Back to top What are the most promising concepts for future EV motors?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024
• And so far the 2023 breeding season isn’t looking any more promising.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• That’s a promising start for a musical, a genre that has struggled in recent times.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023
• Howards Grove authored a promising start, taking a 14-6 advantage over Kohler at the end of the first quarter.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• Beau Is Afraid wasn’t the only promising sign of the April 14-16 weekend at the specialty box office.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2023
• This seemed like a promising change to politics as normal — at first.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• Above the Rim The story of a high school basketball star, stuck between street life and a promising future.
  — Ashley McDonough, Essence, 25 Apr. 2024
• Related: For Kenmore Square, does the end of an era mean a promising future?
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Juwan Johnson switched from wide receiver to tight end and the results were very promising in 2022.
  — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• That said, the new study did provide promising results of keto helping boost the health of women with PCOS.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 18 Sep. 2023
• If any of the promising data points about the job market were to sour then young people might start to sour on the economy, Guichard says.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 May 2024
• The fact that Yeezy was already a promising moneymaker is part of the answer.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2024
• The promising feature film projects are from this year’s focus country, Spain.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• What’s not to like? Bailey makes for a promising leading actor.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• And next year's quarterback draft class — the Panthers, at the very least, will kick the tires on picking another quarterback — doesn't seem as promising, but who's to say?
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
• The data on the treatment have been promising but not definitive (and is lacking for girls in particular).
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024