How to Use enterprise in a Sentence

enterprise

noun

• He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.
• Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.
• When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise.
• Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.
• But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The stench of blackmail hangs over the whole enterprise.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• And the way to do that was to establish a new form of enterprise.
  — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• That kind of control is at the heart of the Amazon enterprise.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• As the sun set beyond the pool deck, Rosero laid out his enterprise for me.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• There will still be a huge market for this type of enterprise in the Biden era.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Stern notched $300 in sales the first hour his enterprise was up and running.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
• This has made a full-time role on the show a truly high-stakes enterprise.
  — Kirthana Ramisetti, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
• It wasn't supposed to come to this, but the entire enterprise had been poorly planned from the start.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2018
• The blame game, in this case, isn’t easy to play; pass protection is a 12-man enterprise.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Take a look at this entire enterprise from her point of view.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The big boss might be one bad apple, but the whole enterprise is an apple pie.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
• Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• Then, the fickle weather gods must smile on the enterprise.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• The whole enterprise was swept off the public markets and into their hands.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• The fun, when tied to a dollar sign, gives a gimmicky quality to the whole enterprise.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• An essential pop-up enterprise, the kitchen and its labors have not stopped.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• There were legal risks from the early days of his enterprise.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
• This was, of course, a for-profit enterprise and risk is a constituent part of that business.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The whole economical and squalid enterprise, just this side of a derelict’s bindle.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• An idea man, Syd loved the creative side of his enterprises.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• The same is going to be the case for countless other enterprises, small and large.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• This is where doubts about Virgin being a true space enterprise start to bite.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 12 July 2021
• Every sticker on the car means a little more money to keep the enterprise afloat.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
• Yielding too soon dooms the whole enterprise (as does not yielding at all).
  — Laura Kipnis, The Cut, 10 June 2018
• This comes at a time when football as an enterprise is in trouble.
  — NBC News, 27 May 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024