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How to use adventurer in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Adventurer means one who enjoys adventures. Example: “The adventurer was attacked by a shade.”

Examples of adventurer by meaning

nounOne who enjoys adventures.

  • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the...

nounA player of adventure games or text adventures.

  • Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.1983 July, PC Mag, volume 2, number 2, page 351
  • It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)

More sentences with adventurer

  • The adventurer was attacked by a shade.From the entry shade
  • The young adventurer set out on the new planet alone, thankful that she could still call on her captain for advice in case of emergency.From the entry call on
  • There have been many attempts to find Genghis’ tomb by grave robbers, adventurers and archaeologists.2016, “The search for Genghis Khan's tomb”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2016. From the entry Khentii
  • It is open to everyone-from hardcore gamers to Candy Crushers and role-playing adventurers.2014 September 21, “Philanthropies”, in News Sentinel, page 2E. From the entry Candy Crusher
  • We did not expect the "E" ticket ride, nor did our newest riding adventurer, Greg.2007, Philip Beaudet, Wilderness Adventures on Horseback, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry E ticket
  • Experienced biking adventurers usually fill a plastic bag with a quick-energy concoction called "gorp" (good-old-raisins-and-peanuts).1974, Sue Ellin Browder, The American Biking Atlas & Touring Guide, Workman Pub. Co., →ISBN, page XXIII. From the entry gorp
  • Crusaders were kings, lords, wretches, children, women, weaponsmen, churchmen, hermits, harlots, adventurers.1974, Lauran Paine, Saladin; a man for all ages, page 13. From the entry weaponsman
  • Adventurers and soldiers of fortune, adventureresses and ladies of fortune, drift in from many lands.1930 April 21, Gilbert Swan, “In New York”, in Daily News Standard, volume 42, number 108, Uniontown, Pa., page four. From the entry adventureress
  • He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XLIII, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September…. From the entry Parnassus
  • The prisoner of unknown bandits, hurried he knew not whence, a pretty pass for an adventurer.1900, John Buchan, chapter 29, in The Half-Hearted. From the entry pretty pass
  • To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.1984, Simon Rockman, “Rockman Files: MUD, MUD, Glorious MUD”, in Games Computing, volume April 1984, page 89. From the entry mobile
  • He must guard himself from beggars, cranks, curiosity seekers, matchmakers, adventurers and adventureresses and people who want to sell him things.1920 September 1, ““Clerk Faces Problem of Spending Millions”, in Montgomery Times, volume 36, Montgomery, Ala., page [8], column 2. From the entry adventureress
  • He became the ally of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the avenue.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry ally
  • She pictured him as a crafty adventurer, a wretched fortune-hunter.1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 5, in Uneasy Money. From the entry fortune-hunter
  • The most recent adventurer in the direction of formulating a theory of the moon's influence on the weather is Mr.1904, The Meteorological Magazine, volume 38, page 10. From the entry lunarist
  • Gabriele D’Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy’s nationalist right-wingers.2014 August 23, “Travails of a modern city”, in The Economist. From the entry priapic
  • The most famous of all Nizzards also allowed himself to become involved in a daft plot with an English adventurer called Laurence Oliphant.2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 191. From the entry Nissard
  • If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, page 13. From the entry sleuth
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. From the entry out to lunch
  • Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn.1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI. From the entry unpitied
  • The people most affected by this disease are the flightcrews – those fearless adventurers who go flying around in machines that you mechs have worked on.1979, Daved V. Arel, “Switchitis”, in Mech, page 6. From the entry mech
  • The New World was experiencing the cruelties of many of these mercenary adventurers whose religious medals, Crucifixes and Rosary mumblings were varnishments of a ferocious quest for gold.1969, K. T. Wills, Vanozza: A Novel of the Enigmatical Borgias of the Renaissance. From the entry varnishment
  • Biggs—in the presence of Colonel Bristo—made a last effort to induce Sergeant Compton to join the conspiracy of silence regarding the identity of Miles, the Australian adventurer.1902, E. W. Hornung, chapter 31, in At Large. From the entry conspiracy of silence
  • 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…. From the entry adventure

Meaning of adventurer

  1. noun One who enjoys adventures.
  2. noun A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
  3. noun A soldier of fortune, a speculator.

Full definition of adventurer

Questions about adventurer in a sentence

How do you use adventurer in a sentence?
Adventurer is used as a noun. For example: “The adventurer was attacked by a shade.”
What is a short sentence with adventurer?
“The adventurer was attacked by a shade.”
What does adventurer mean?
Adventurer means one who enjoys adventures.

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