How to Use promising in a Sentence

promising

adjective
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  • The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
  • The most promising pipeline medicines for PTSD come from the world of psychedelics.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Where there’s a will, there’s a way; follow the path most promising.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For the game, the Jayhawks shot 60.3% from the field, a promising sign after the offense had dipped in recent games.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • His showing through four games in Triple-A has been more promising.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There are some promising signs of movement on this front.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The gel is the most promising development in that time, but there's still a long way to go.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
  • Vital to the economy For those in the tourism industry, the year was off to a promising start.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Thankfully, the trailers that showed up this week look as promising as any of the best of those.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 29 June 2024
  • Cody Morris made five starts for the Guards last season and looked promising.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Up to 10% of the former residents who left have returned, with more promising to come home in the spring.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • What might seem like a quixotic mission has so far had a promising start.
    — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
  • This time around, the crew is led, in a very promising development, by Lisa Kudrow.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • There's a long way to go until that happens, of course, but Wednesday was a promising first step.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Other research groups have found promising ways to do this.
    — Linh Vu, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Mitja Lo Duca was one of the most promising mountaineers in 1980s Yugoslavia.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Back to top What are the most promising concepts for future EV motors?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024
  • For now, though, his lack of involvement is not promising.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And so far the 2023 breeding season isn’t looking any more promising.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a promising start for a musical, a genre that has struggled in recent times.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Howards Grove authored a promising start, taking a 14-6 advantage over Kohler at the end of the first quarter.
    — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Beau Is Afraid wasn’t the only promising sign of the April 14-16 weekend at the specialty box office.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2023
  • This seemed like a promising change to politics as normal — at first.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Above the Rim The story of a high school basketball star, stuck between street life and a promising future.
    — Ashley McDonough, Essence, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Related: For Kenmore Square, does the end of an era mean a promising future?
    — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • There are key players who play the rest of the year shoulder to shoulder with the best in the world, and the pipeline is consistently promising.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Juwan Johnson switched from wide receiver to tight end and the results were very promising in 2022.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
  • That said, the new study did provide promising results of keto helping boost the health of women with PCOS.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In 2020, Biden won Arizona by more than ten thousand votes, but Harris, after a promising start, has lagged there.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
  • But the Warriors’ early success in challenging is a promising sign.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024

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