exploit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exploit, each labelled with its topic.

• The crossing of the strait on a homemade raft remains the exploit the harbour museum describes on its entrance wall.

  Travel

• Scoring sixty in a final is an exploit the league still replays every anniversary, forty years after the buzzer.

  Basketball

• The saga devotes nine chapters to one exploit: a winter crossing that no other sailor in the story attempts.

  Literature

• The polar crossing was the exploit that made the expedition famous, and newspapers followed every mile by telegraph.

  History

• The film retells the pilot's greatest exploit, a landing on a frozen river that nobody believed until the photographs appeared.

  Movies

• Swimming the channel at sixty was an exploit the club still talks about, and her time has not been beaten.

  Fitness

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More Academic words

• feasible
• correspondence
• utilize
• functioning
• coupling
• proceeds
• merge
• inference
• censor
• inevitably
• dynamics
• enabling