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How to use adventure in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Adventure means a feeling of desire for new and exciting things. Example: “Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.”

Examples of adventure by meaning

nounA feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

  • his sense of adventure

nounA remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

  • a life full of adventures

nounA text adventure or an adventure game.

  • The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash, number 4, (review)
  • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper.1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128

verbTo risk oneself.

  • Teachers whose powers of mathematical and scientific thought are undeveloped may feel encouraged by these records to adventure themselves into the child’s wonderful world of discovery.1973, Alice Yardley, “[Index] Discovering the Physical World”, in Young Children Thinking, New York, N.Y.: Citation Press, →ISBN, page 142

verbTo risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.

  • He gave Kitty advice about everything; he tramped the hills with the dogs, carrying a shot-gun that he never used; and he adventured upon a recently recommended diet of buttermilk and hickory-nuts.1919, Zöe Akins, chapter V, in Cake Upon the Waters, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 85
  • In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459
  • The album sees the band adventuring into new territories.1992 July–August, Option, number 45, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sonic Options Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2

verbTo venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

  • The epic is one that could be adventured nowhere else; only this region affords the conditions.1924 December 19, Blanche Colton Williams, “Introduction”, in O. Henry Memorial Award: Prize Stories of 1924, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday...

verbTo risk or hazard; jeopard.

  • The first object was to bring within forseeable and moderate limits the risks to be undertaken by the shipowner when he adventured his ship on a commercial enterprise.1946 October 12, [Leslie] Scott, quotee, “United Africa Co. Ltd. v. Owners of M.V. Tolten. The Tolten.”, in The All England Law Reports...
  • Expanded to embrace all MPs who had adventured money, it had operated in cojunction with a London-based adventurers’ committee in what was intended as, in effect, a private enterprise expedition.2002, Robert Armstrong, “Ireland at Westminster: the Long Parliament’s Irish Committees, 1641–1647”, in Chris R. Kyle, Jason Peacey...

More sentences with adventure

  • Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.From the entry excellent
  • She quit her doldrum job and left to seek a life of adventure.From the entry doldrum
  • The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.From the entry chortle
  • These are exotic lands where great adventures await.From the entry await
  • Organized crime, law enforcement, warfare, nature, disasters, mythology, religion, and history are all common themes in the action adventure genre.From the entry action adventure
  • The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.From the entry kickable
  • Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.From the entry den
  • Talking to you’s always an adventure.From the entry you's
  • My favorite young adult writer, Jen Derbyshire, just published her 50th paperback novel, the latest in an adventure series spanning fifteen years.From the entry young adult
  • He tells of his adventures abroad.From the entry tell of
  • The "ultimate paranormal Outdoor adventure" incorporates ghosts and camping -- or what's being dubbed as "GHamping".2023 May 22, Jessica A. Botelho, “'The Conjuring' house now offering overnight camping experiences”, in Las Vegas News. From the entry ghamping
  • The spirit of a tomato girl is easy-going, confident, and always down for an adventure.2023 July 3, Donya Momenian, Teen Vogue, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2026. From the entry tomato girl
  • Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious.2022, Jennifer Egan, “i, the Protagonist”, in The Candy House. From the entry caper
  • Two tasks I want to discuss are mentioned several times within this chapter: sidequests and adventure paths.2022, Adam Moreno, Purpose-Driven Learning: Unlocking and Empowering Our Students’ Innate Passion for Learning, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN. From the entry sidequest
  • A microadventure is exactly what it sounds like: a short, simple, cheap, local version of an adventure.2021 July 5, Emily Pennington, “Who Needs the Grand Canyon? Try a Microadventure.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry microadventure
  • They think romance should always be an adventure, and it takes a lot for them to DTR.2020 November 6, Kyle Thomas, “Your Cosmic Love Triangle, by Zodiac Sign”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry dtr
  • Conclusion: absoflippinglutely the right choice and the perfect fit with Wild Cycles' adventures.2020 August 22, John Heard, “Wild Cycles Expands Its Fleet with Sonder Frontier Bikepacking Fleet!”, in Wild Cycles. From the entry absoflippinglutely
  • Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, page 130. From the entry elective
  • Love running on the beach and in the woods and kayak adventures, snuggles and sleeping, mlem.2019 September 30, Maine Cannabis Chronicle, volume I, issue III, page 44. From the entry mlem
  • Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn’t disappoint”, in The Guardian, London, archived…. From the entry manic
  • Rick, do you need to drink in here?” “Yes.” “Here's the adventure.2017 October 1, Dan Harmon, “The Rickchurian Mortydate” (0:44 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 3, episode 10, spoken by…. From the entry googa
  • Five game modes drive the fun in Minecraft: survival, creative, adventure, spectator, and hardcore.2017, Michael Ross, Christopher Ross, Building Faith Block by Block, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest Kids, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry game mode
  • Plenty of CGs pad out the adventure too, with beautiful art depicting the events that take place.2016 March 7, Andrew Barker, “Steins;Gate”, in RPGFan, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2019. From the entry cg
  • Along with Dolores, there’s Teddy (James Marsden), a heroic-seeming gunslinger looking for adventure.2016 October 2, David Sims, “Westworld Is a Grand Saga of Gunslingers and Robots”, in The Atlantic. From the entry gunslinger
  • If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.2015 October 7, Richard Harbourne, “St. Lucia”, in Travel Counsellors. From the entry accommodation
  • Helen asked Eleni, “Would you like to join me and my merfriends on an adventure?”2014, Despina Karfis, The Magical Pool, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry merfriend
  • The English gallants who came to the colony for adventure or to escape punishment were very tender-handed.2014, Alice Morse Earle, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, →ISBN. From the entry tender-handed
  • This is similar to a blunder designers of adventure games can make.2014, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, Second Edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry pixel hunt
  • Undoubtedly a force in the early days of the graphical adventure game genre was LucasArts.2011, Sue Blackman, Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity, page 6. From the entry adventure game

Meaning of adventure

  1. noun A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
  2. noun A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
  3. noun A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.

Full definition of adventure

Questions about adventure in a sentence

How do you use adventure in a sentence?
Adventure is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.”
What is a short sentence with adventure?
“his sense of adventure”
What does adventure mean?
Adventure means a feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adventure (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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