pursue - use in sentences

Object

  • career: Our trainees, mostly from school, have gone on to pursue careers in the trades at the local building college.
  • claim: We shall continue to pursue claims for adequate compensation from the Council.
  • avenue: Revolt is also pursuing legal avenues on human rights and on constitutional rights.

Modifying Another Word

  • energetically: Most importantly, like most people with AD(H)D he would pursue energetically and conscientiously matters in which he had great interest.

Subject

  • police: And 17 of them have occured when a vehicle has crashed whilst being pursued by the police themselves.

Used with why or when

  • what: Always pursue what is good, noble, beautiful.

Modifying Another Word

  • vigorously: Councilor Hussey urged that this be pursued vigorously in view of the benefits of the linkage between Sioux Falls, Strabane and mainland Europe.
  • aggressively: The American Trotskyists now aggressively pursued contacts with the Congress Socialists.
  • actively: Falconry terms were at one time only in the language of the nobility who actively pursued the medieval art.
  • hotly: Stella McCartney was close behind, the two were hotly pursued by a pack of panting photographers.

Preposition: in

  • isolation: Understanding the Korean people cannot be pursued in isolation from the reality of their interaction with these four cultural universes.
  • collaboration: This work is being pursued in collaboration with the Dept of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine at the National University Hospital.

Preposition: by

  • demon: She is a woman pursued by demons, fuelled by the loss of her mother and her own baby.
  • police: And 17 of them have occured when a vehicle has crashed whilst being pursued by the police themselves.

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