PROGRESSIVE in a Sentence

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Both were susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress which is accomplished in the direction of evil.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROGRESSIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
progressive
 a.  forward-looking; advancing; incremental
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
2  Like the governor, whom he had come down to pass judgment upon, he was reckoned a progressive; and though he was already a bigwig, he was not like the majority of bigwigs.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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?
10  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?
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  The argument needs to progress beyond the simple assertion that criminals are made not born.
17  To know one's self is true progress.
18  All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
19  The East and the West can work together for their mutual benefit and progress.
20  The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
21  The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
22  Fear of change is an obstacle to progress.
23  Economic factors determine the progress which a society can make.
24  They meet monthly to discuss progress.
25  If you're at all worried about his progress, do discuss it with one of his teachers.
26  Parents will be able to discuss their child's progress with their teacher.
27  Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.
28  Good studies are needed to lend credence to the notion that genuine progress can be made in this important field.
29  Discontent is the first step in progress.
30  Sometimes, the key to making progress is to recognize how to take that very first step.