PROGRESS in a Sentence

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288 example sentences for PROGRESS, such as:

1. Discontent is the first step in progress.
2. I'm afraid we're not making much progress.
3. They asked for a progress report on the project.
4. Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
5. Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROGRESS
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progress
 n.  moving or going forward; proceeding onward; advance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4  As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
5  Both were susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress which is accomplished in the direction of evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
6  There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
7  Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8  If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
9  This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10  To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
11  Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
12  To dare; that is the price of progress.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
13  An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
14  A light troubled by smoke, progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this tender and serious spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  If you're at all worried about his progress, do discuss it with one of his teachers.
17  Parents will be able to discuss their child's progress with their teacher.
18  Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.
19  Good studies are needed to lend credence to the notion that genuine progress can be made in this important field.
20  Discontent is the first step in progress.
21  Sometimes, the key to making progress is to recognize how to take that very first step.
22  Through science we've got the idea of associating progress with the future.
23  Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
24  She was reported by the hospital spokesman to be making excellent progress.
25  Aid to individual countries would be linked to progress towards democracy.
26  Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his culminating point--he will progress no more.
27  Mr Kennedy said that progress on reforms would be incremental.
28  I'm afraid we're not making much progress.
29  These killings have seriously hindered progress towards peace.
30  They asked for a progress report on the project.