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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