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promises

noun as in hope, possibility

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Example Sentences

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

Instead of lights and gifts, this one is filled with broken promises and guilt.

Essentially, we are being left in a position where we are expected to just take agency promises at face value.

Rising up from scooping bay, the steep topography—hemmed by hills of evergreens—promises panoramas at practically every turn.

We have been at war for a long time and the fight promises to continue well into the future.

It is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.

You have borrowed, as these accounts will show, thousands of pounds, and paid them back with promises and words.

The promises of Bellamy and Planner were as far from fulfilment as ever; their performance as vigorous and disastrous as at first.

This, however, would probably be more than counterbalanced by the magnificent returns which this locality promises to afford.

On occasions of Covenanting, God has actually made promises, and sworn to men.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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