promote

In a sentence

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

• Sleeping eight hours does more to promote muscle growth than any supplement sold at the front counter.

  Fitness

• Replanting the hedgerows promotes the return of beetles and songbirds along field edges that had been bare.

  Environment

• Cheap loans to small manufacturers promoted regional growth far more reliably than the tax holidays tried earlier.

  Economics

• Keeping the wound moist promotes healing, which is why the old advice to let it dry out has been dropped.

  Medicine

• Praise for effort rather than talent promotes persistence, and children told they worked hard keep trying longer.

  Psychology

• A dry surface promotes browning, so pat the chicken with paper towels before it goes into the pan.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• concept
• administration
• consequence
• identity
• consume
• assistance
• discrimination
• occupy
• regional
• conduct
• challenging
• publisher