prospect

In a sentence

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

• The prospect of a second funding round kept the team working through a winter with no salaries at all.

  Startups

• Faced with the prospect of a winter crossing, the expedition wintered at the fort and set out in April.

  History

• The trial results gave patients the prospect of a treatment that could be taken at home rather than by infusion.

  Medicine

• The prospect of a championship kept the veteran playing one more season on a knee that ached every morning.

  Basketball

• The prospect of steady dividends drew retirees to the utility shares even when growth stocks were racing ahead.

  Finance

• With no prospect of winning the district, the party ran a young candidate simply to give her practice.

  Politics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains prospect. 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

• creation
• identical
• justified
• route
• constituent
• acknowledged
• adaptive
• external
• posing
• deliberate
• acknowledgement
• mature