progressive - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • religious: In 1643 the House of Commons promised money and religious and political influence throughout the realm to religious progressives in Scotland.
  • British: Many British progressives have used the IRA campaign as an excuse to avoid these issues altogether.

Modifies a noun

  • jackpot: Build up your personal progressive jackpot for a chance to collect during the exciting bonus round.
  • taxation: Council Tax Liberal Democrats believe in fair, progressive taxation based on the ability to pay.
  • deterioration: What is taking place is a progressive deterioration of the human personality.
  • Ms: The patients in the study are a selected group of all patients with secondary progressive MS.
  • relaxation: For example, progressive muscular relaxation has been shown to help promote sleep.
  • politics: Time has always been at the heart of progressive politics.

Modifying Another Word

  • socially: No private company would have experimented with such socially progressive innovations in building homes.
  • slowly: The good news is that it is in my case very slowly progressive: the bad news is that I have it at all.
  • rapidly: Some babies may develop a rapidly progressive disease, although symptoms often improve.
  • supposedly: For that reason we will continue to direct thought into all the intricacies of fantastic theories, new and supposedly progressive.
  • genuinely: Only when the threat of war and crippling sanctions are removed will a genuinely progressive mass opposition to Saddam be likely.
  • truly: The constituting vision of the WCC is the truly progressive and radical vision.

Used with adjective complement

  • lead: The ippr is the UK's leading progressive think tank.
  • call: Minimum car cheap insurance us auto coverage to call progressive.
  • seem: We can continue altering our expectations and habits until even those software telephone operators begin to seem progressive.
  • become: In that case indirect taxation can become just as progressive as direct taxation.
  • support: Digital TVs support progressive scanning which draws 60 full frames in a second instead of only 60 half frames in a second.

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