promising

IPA: prˈɑmʌsɪŋ

noun

  • The act of making a promise.

adjective

  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
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Examples of "promising" in Sentences

  • Across the divide, La Dorada shrieked at him, her expression promising pain.
  • For a title promising Manhattan, there sure is a lack thereof in the finished product.
  • President Bush today applauded what he calls a promising sign of progress by Iraq's leaders.
  • However, investigators do say they are following several strong and what they called promising leads.
  • It comes as U.S. military officials in Baghdad are touting what they call promising statistics showing a drop in violence over the past week.
  • Investigators pursued what they described as promising leads Wednesday in a chilling bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in which someone left a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives on a bench.
  • He ran a music conservatory in their hometown of Dusseldorf, and his first rat-like, rodent-like behavior came as a-- a result of his bringing home what he termed promising, young, female students -- home from the conservatory for what were termed, with raised eyebrows,

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