potential

In a sentence

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

• Scouts listed the guard as a potential starter, someone who had never begun a game but might within two seasons.

  Basketball

• The agency flagged three potential stops along the coast, none booked yet, in case the ferry strike closed the islands.

  Travel

• Every demo in the pile is a potential single, though only one will ever be recorded with the full band.

  Music

• The investors saw a potential market of ten million users, though the app had fewer than a thousand at the time.

  Startups

• The probe will test three potential landing sites, none yet chosen, before the final decision next spring.

  Science

• The screening flagged a potential problem with her thyroid, so the doctor ordered a second test to see whether it was real.

  Medicine

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains potential. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• secure
• maximum
• consumer
• collapse
• transformation
• classical
• virtual
• instructions
• commentary
• infinite
• emphasis
• significance