INITIATIVE in a Sentence

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When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her understand that she had spoken the initial letter of the thing he wanted.

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 Meanings and Examples of INITIATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
initiative
 n.  serving to initiate; introductory step or movement; act which originates or begins
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of every other human character, than the Upper.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
2  He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
4  His indignation was mounting, now that the initial hurt was subsiding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Chris wanted those with initial letters in the corner, because he had never seen any before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
6  He felt vaguely that death must make a first choice of the men who were nearest; the initial morsels for the dragons would be then those who were following him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  The initial letters alone are given.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  He regretted his initial plan, which had at first seemed so practical to him.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Two First Cross-examination
9  also now understood that the court was ashamed to summon those it accused to the attic of this building for the initial hearing, and why it preferred to impose upon them in their own homes.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
10  When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her understand that she had spoken the initial letter of the thing he wanted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
11  First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
12  "Here," he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
13  By the kings command, Maitre Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial letter and to call himself Gorbeau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
14  The chief initial source of this was labor in the army, and his pay and bounty as a soldier.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
15  ceases to be the initials of an individual and becomes the badge of a society.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
16  He called the ineffectual cease-fire a diplomatic initiative that would be first step to end the conflict.
17  Much of that money is already committed to the plan through the Global AIDS Fund, the World Bank and President Bush's AIDS initiative.
18  The initial talks were the base of the later agreement.
19  The initial talks were the base of the later.
20  The court's initial verdict in the police officers' trial set off serious riots.
21  The revenue from the farm could repay the initial outlay within three years.
22  We've sorted out the computer system's initial problems.
23  The initial image projected was of a caring, effective president.
24  The initial impact of the reforms will be felt most keenly in primary schools.
25  The initial stimulus came from a letter in the newspaper.
26  Predictably, after the initial media interest, the refugees now seem to have been forgotten.
27  Nevertheless there are initial considerations that all participant observers make to some extent prior to entering and during fieldwork.
28  An Invoicer participant provides the Invoicing service for calculating the initial price for a purchase order.
29  His initial surge of euphoria was quickly followed by dismay.
30  In the initial stages, the researcher needs to understand the market, and the client's position and objectives within it.