Explore Pursue through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like move or seek. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pursue meaning
- To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
- To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
Synonyms of Pursue
Using Pursue
- The main meaning on this page is: To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
- Useful related words include: move, look for, seek, search.
- In the example corpus, pursue often appears in combinations such as: to pursue, pursue the, pursue career.
Context around Pursue
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pursue
- In this selection, "pursue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, students, mackenzie, getting, music and coaching stand out and add context to how "pursue" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affair to pursue a romance, and can pursue a combination, pursue career and pursue music. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pursue" sits close to words such as containing, solo and soul, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pursue
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Afterwards, she moved to the United States to pursue a Ph. (11 words)
A fresh new look can give you the to pursue more of what you want in life. (17 words)
A lot of mechanics also decide to pursue an associate’s degree in automotive technology or autobody repair. (18 words)
A graduate from Plainview High School in 1992, he said playing under Coach Carl Irlbeck, who had more than 1,000 wins in his career and is in the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame, inspired him to want to pursue coaching. (43 words)
Actress Richa Chadha will support three upcoming woman entrepreneurs for any course they like to pursue which can come handy to brush up their skills to develop their businesses further. (30 words)
After initially reporting the incident to the police, Mr Skidmore has now said he is not looking to get the slabs back, nor wanting to pursue any charges. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
I think they thought I would give up on such a trivial task, but I knew God wanted me to pursue, so pursue I did.
Shania Farrington will pursue her undergraduate studies in Hospitality and Tourism and Alana Urena will pursue her undergraduate studies in Business Accounting.
So if they could pursue me to the first roadblock, I also believe that they can pursue me even to where the soldiers are,” Adebayo said.
Although Ralph did not want his son to pursue a career as a race car driver, Dale dropped out of school to pursue his dreams.
Students pursue a major, and can pursue a combination of a total of up to three including minors, certificates, and/or a second major.
Actress Richa Chadha will support three upcoming woman entrepreneurs for any course they like to pursue which can come handy to brush up their skills to develop their businesses further.
Additionally, an archery arena has been developed for budding and talented archers to pursue the sport professionally, a statement issued by the CMO said.
A fresh new look can give you the to pursue more of what you want in life.
After Ben breaks off the affair to pursue a romance with Elaine, Mrs. Robinson is determined to keep the two apart.
After completing high school, Peter moved to Virginia temporarily to pursue getting his B.S. in Sports Management from James Madison University.
After completing my undergraduate degree in business, I decided to pursue a Master’s degree in Information & Technology Management in the early 2000s.
After crash-landing on a dangerous, archaic, and mystical planet, Serenity and her estranged daughter, Mackenzie, pursue an energy source that may be the key to escaping.
After graduating from Midtown High School in Atlanta, Webster briefly attended Belmont University (Tenn.) before returning to Atlanta to pursue music full-time.
After her current AU Degree, Katrina is still undecided whether to pursue her master’s degree or to work toward law school.
After initially reporting the incident to the police, Mr Skidmore has now said he is not looking to get the slabs back, nor wanting to pursue any charges.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was sent to aerial photographer training, having been considered too old to pursue a fighter pilot career.
Afterwards, she moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.
A graduate from Plainview High School in 1992, he said playing under Coach Carl Irlbeck, who had more than 1,000 wins in his career and is in the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame, inspired him to want to pursue coaching.
A League of Their Own ultimately celebrates women in a male-dominated area and serves as a reminder to pursue one’s dream despite what society dictates.
A lot of mechanics also decide to pursue an associate’s degree in automotive technology or autobody repair.
Phrases with pursue
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with pursue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to pursue 150×
- pursue the 21×
- pursue career 15×
- pursue their 13×
- pursue her 7×
- pursue his 7×
- will pursue 5×
- can pursue 5×
- pursue an 4×
- pursue music 4×