How to Use propitious in a Sentence

propitious

adjective

• Now is a propitious time to start a business.
• So looked at one way, the sit down with Putin came at a propitious time.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• But in the short term, the omens do not look propitious for the Republicans.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
• Finally, the chip orders the firing of the spark plugs at the most propitious moment.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2020
• The moment is all the more propitious given the weakness of rivals like Party City and the large drugstore chains.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2020
• All of which comes at a propitious time for the league and its commissioner, Roger Goodell.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Yet, on September 18th, as the sun was going down, the seamen caught a propitious breeze.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• There is reason to think that this might not be the most propitious moment for green eyeshades, either.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 8 Dec. 2020
• Businessmen might go to one to select a propitious date to launch a new venture.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• With any luck, our descendants will see the past from a more propitious perspective than our own.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• Hayes’s background as a physician and lodge owner has been propitious.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• The timing was propitious; Hong Kong’s economy grew by 9% a year on average in that decade.
  — The Economist, 24 Mar. 2018
• The omens are propitious for a major advance in trade relations.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Its objective is to free the vines from their confinement and spread them in an entourage propitious to the fullness of their faculties.
  — Karen Lubeck, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2022
• Despite the pandemic and the sketchy nature of its announcement, Overtime Elite appears to have picked a propitious time to launch.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2021
• The timing is propitious, Haskell says, sitting in her office where tall poster boards pinned with exhibition images lean against the walls.
  — Holly Millea, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• The propitious melody comes to a sudden standstill; a strident chord interrupts and the music veers off into minor.
  — Paavali Jumppanen, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• The addition of a minority owner comes at a propitious time for the franchise.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• This would not be a propitious time to hit them with another cut in Medicare reimbursement rates.
  — Robert Moffit, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
• This is a propitious time to push forward toward black reparations.
  — William Darity, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2021
• The story of how Gio Ponti came to design a museum — or part of a museum — in Colorado is one of propitious timing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• But this big shift is propitious for wine grapes, which after a day of ripening get cooled down, preserving freshness and acidity.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2023
• Opening at Eastpoint Mall proved to be a propitious business decision for Mr. Hicks.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2017
• But the timing of the Greenway development was propitious.
  — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• So here’s Fred Bauer sounding a warning on the politics of austerity: There is reason to think that this might not be the most propitious moment for green eyeshades. . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• Today is not propitious for starting any new projects, as you are not quite done reviewing what happened with your last big undertaking.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• The political calendar is tight, with the change of emperor this year and the Olympics in 2020, and the geopolitical environment is not propitious.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• These fun and colorful bracelets are hidden inside of two fortune cookies, along with a propitious paper fortune.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• The market is propitious, yet a metropolis’s crackle comes from the variety of its people and the intertwining of disparate lives.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
• These are not propitious circumstances under which to rebuild an empire.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 May 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024