How to Use prospect in a Sentence

prospect

1 of 2 noun

• She is excited by the prospect of returning to school.
• There was no prospect that the two parties would reach an agreement anytime soon.
• We haven't decided which car to buy yet. We're still looking at a few prospects.
• Bankruptcy is an unlikely prospect for the company.
• By the day's end, Trump weighed in on that prospect too.
  — Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• The prospect of enough GOP flips, then, made the math a bit dicey.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• For the rest, the prospect of getting sick looms large.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2020
• Hence, the Bills get a top-tier prospect in the bottom half of the round.
  — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
• So will many of the prospects Cueto worked with along the way.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 22 June 2019
• But the long-term prospects for tech in the Bay Area are like the future.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• That said, the prospects for the season are in decent shape.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Still, Michele felt mixed emotions at the prospect then.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• One man who was sold on the prospect was Joseph Grinnell.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2020
• The next day, the ship’s owner backed out, spooked by the prospect of further strikes.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• There was no prospect of getting any more oil out of the old well.
  — WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
• The prospect felt, in that moment, less of a fever dream than ever.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Illinois had been shunned time and time again by the home state's elite prospects.
  — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 3 Nov. 2017
• The moviegoing mouth waters at the prospect even as the moviegoing mind reels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• And as the year comes to a close, winter carries with it the prospect of more potholes.
  — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2019
• Warming in the Arctic has raised the prospect of a new rush for resources.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
• On this night in Queens, the team had a prospect, Officer Troy Safi, 43.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The former five-star prospect did not see the field on Saturday.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
• The prospect of not being on The Other Two doesn’t take more than an instant to sink in.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023
• The 24-year-old prospect tossed four scoreless innings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
• All the key information about a prospect was there at a glance.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2020
• Freedom can be a scary prospect after decades in prison.
  — CBS News, 24 June 2018
• Matthew Wykoff was ranked a three-star prospect out of Magnolia.
  — Hannah Underwood, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2021
• One grapples with the prospect of finding a sperm donor and raising a child on her own.
  — The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
• But the prospect of an artificial womb is prompting a long list of questions.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• On Thursday, Palm Springs gave a glimpse into its prospects for the displaced community.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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prospect

2 of 2 verb

• Soon all manner of people had arrived in the valley to prospect it for gold.
• Dyer caught gold fever in 1881 and moved to Prescott to prospect, a job that didn’t pan out.
  — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
• Roche agreed to take me prospecting below the Bossons glacier.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
• At least one reason, Meacham said, was to prospect and mine red ocher.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2020
• If the project moved ahead, then his company would conduct the site’s prospecting work.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Robots would prospect the area to determine where to mine.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• Such moments suggest the potential that has the Sox and prospect watchers agog.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Vecino's agent is believed to have met with Inter this week amongst all the took of his prospected move.
  — SI.com, 28 June 2018
• Brokers in that office would prospect and secure deals in states where they were not licensed, Miller said.
  — Katelyn Ferral, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• And now, seven years later, the scars of those prospecting efforts remain.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• The recipe is simple: Sun, salty water, seed bio-prospected from the ocean and fertilizer.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 27 June 2018
• The case is related to the acquisition of a deepwater oil-prospecting license by Eni and Shell in the Gulf of Guinea in 2011.
  — Chiara Albanese, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Shale drillers in the Permian Basin are producing vast amounts of gas as a byproduct of prospecting for oil.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• Many of the most successful members of the Klondike gold rush sold goods and services to prospectors rather than prospecting themselves.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Shell first came to the Eastern Niger Delta with a license, granted by Nigeria's government, to prospect for oil in all parts of the country.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• At that point their PSA levels are through the roof, and their long-term survival prospects much bleaker than with early-stage cancer.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
• Three Detroit Tigers players were named to prospect lists this offseason.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2023
• Welcome to a post-holiday edition of the Detroit Tigers prospects mailbag.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2018
• Liam Kirk is in the Valley for the third Arizona Coyotes prospect development camp of his career.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
• Chicago Cubs prospect Brailyn Márquez’s journey to get back to the big leagues has hit another hurdle.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
• The coal for which Roy Karlsen prospected will, most likely, never be extracted.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Betts got hold of an inside slider from Josiah Gray, taking the former Dodgers prospect deep with a line drive that sneaked just inside the foul pole in left.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• Former Mets prospect Anthony Kay was tagged four six runs while recording two outs.
  — Mike Haim, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• His first pitch sailed to the backstop, nearly taking Phillies prospect Mickey Moniak’s head along with it.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2022
• But which prospects arriving at Brush and Adams streets might tear us away from obsessing over a certain blue-and-silver squad?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
• Following the draft, the draft picks will report to prospect development camp on July 10-15.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
• Senate prospects a long shot Patrick’s coldness to expanding gambling loomed large over the House debate.
  — Patrick Svitek, Chron, 11 May 2023
• Which prospects slot into either group is up for debate, but Weaver voted in favor of going after the first group.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
• Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson took his position at first base.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2022
• The Freemans are just two of the hundreds of people prospecting for critical materials across the country as the U.S. tries to strengthen the domestic supply chain.
  — Time, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024