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Example sentences for "exploit"

Lexicographically close words:
expliquer; explode; exploded; explodes; exploding; exploitable; exploitation; exploitations; exploited; exploiter
  1. The night had not passed before this new exploit was accomplished.

  2. This last magnificent exploit seemed to end the battle; some arrows flew harmlessly around Diaz, who was welcomed back with shouts of triumph by his companions.

  3. The last exploit of Diaz, the death that so many of their party had met with in the camp, and those killed by the filing, had thinned their ranks.

  4. He was received with great kindness by the Queen, who, considering that his exploit almost rivalled that of Drake, bestowed on him the honour of knighthood.

  5. Their first exploit was an attack on the town of Guayaquil, when Dampier commanded the artillery.

  6. The Laird's Wat is perhaps the young Buccleuch, who, about twenty years after this raid, performed the great exploit of rescuing Kinmont Willie from Carlisle Castle.

  7. We have in the fifth volume seen how such an affair was conducted by Robin Hood and his associates; and in Kinmont Willie have had an authenticated account of a remarkable exploit of this description at the close of the reign of Elizabeth.

  8. The non-Christian races fear, not without cause, that the object of western peoples is to exploit them.

  9. The German race is called to bind the earth under its control, to exploit the natural resources and the physical powers of man, to use the passive races in subordinate capacity for the development of its Kultur.

  10. Louis Vaughan, not to exploit success farther than justified by the initial surprise, was abandoned for a time.

  11. I do not divorce all peoples from their governments as victims of a subtle tyranny devised by statesmen and diplomats of diabolical cunning, and by financial magnates ready to exploit human life for greater gains.

  12. Louis Vaughan, his chief of staff, that Sir Douglas Haig could not afford to give them strong reserves to exploit any success they might gain by surprise or to defend the captured ground against certain counter-attacks.

  13. The King took the keenest interest in every detail of the exploit and of the tactics employed.

  14. The King went on to examine the scene of the exploit of Vindictive and her supporting ships.

  15. It was an exploit of which even he could be proud.

  16. But the return of the General prevented my knowing the golf exploit he was going to tell me.

  17. Patrols must be pushed out without delay, as it is the intention of the Divisional Commander to exploit initial success with another brigade to-day.

  18. In a few more minutes they moved back quietly, and lay down as before on the cold sand; but they had left forty-five of their number and two captains to mark the scene of their exploit by their graves.

  19. In a few more minutes they moved back quietly, and lay down as before in the cold sand: but they had left forty-five of their number and two captains to mark the scene of their exploit by their graves.

  20. In a subsequent expedition, Cimon, sailing from Athens with a small force, wrested the Thracian Chersonese from the Persians--an exploit which restored to him his own patrimony.

  21. And the variation just neutralizes the monotone which the rest of the room has.

  22. Another wedge was driven into the mob and a section pushed along Forty-second, nearly to Fifth Avenue.

  23. The audacity of the exploit and the imperturbable manner of its proposal caught his breath away.

  24. Up to that moment the issue of your exploit was in the balance.

  25. It was no business of his if Wogan chose to attribute his own escape from Newgate as an exploit of the King's.

  26. His first exploit was to snap up a weak and isolated British detachment at Modderfontein Nek, and to establish his own commando on the position.

  27. The movement was delayed until half a hundred guns were playing upon Vaalkrantz and the chance of a celer et audax exploit was lost.

  28. It would have been regarded as the most notable personal exploit of the war if De Wet had not himself twice repeated it under circumstances of even greater difficulty.

  29. It was a fitting exploit to be performed by the grandson of that Lord Cochrane who at Aix Roads nearly a century before had similarly chafed and strained at the leash of a superior officer's reluctance.

  30. The exploit encouraged Botha to plan a general attack, in co-operation with Viljoen, on a section of the railway each side of Belfast.

  31. For impetuous gallantry the advance of the Irish regiments was not surpassed by any other exploit in the War.

  32. Would an exploit of that sort overleap the pride of birth; and endow our humble candles with the winding-sheet of pedigree?

  33. This company was one originally organized to exploit a new method of manufacturing crude rubber from the plant.

  34. We may find before long they have a property to sell, or a company to promote, or a concession to exploit in South Africa or elsewhere.

  35. He didn't want a capitalist who would personally exploit the thing; he would prefer to do it all on his own account, giving the capitalist preference debentures of his bogus company, and a lien on the concession.

  36. It is you who can see how Mexico's future must depend upon peace and honor, so that nobody shall exploit her.

  37. This exploit leaves only one of these mighty ships afloat, the first having been torpedoed in the Harbor of Pola on May 15.

  38. Capture of Belleau Wood Brilliant Exploit of American Troops Northwest of Chateau-Thierry The American troops achieved their most important exploit on June 6, 7, and 8 in the region northwest of Chateau-Thierry.

  39. The failure of this attempt damped their resolution, and some of the less courageous even murmured against an exploit beset with difficulties, which it appeared next to an impossibility to surmount.

  40. But the Eugenist delusion of the barbaric breed in the abyss affects even those more gracious philanthropists who almost certainly do want to assist the destitute and not merely to exploit them.

  41. Just as a State might own all the guns lest people should shoot each other, so this State would own all the gold and land lest they should cheat or rackrent or exploit each other.

  42. Needs not his exploit in the fields, his valorous deeds to tell-- The ladies of Granada have heard and know them well!

  43. The "liberation" of women brought them out of the house and made it possible for the government to exploit dissension between husband and wife, thereby increasing its control over the family.

  44. The old gentry had been rich landowners, and had no need to exploit the peasants on such a scale.

  45. Albuquerque's next exploit was yet more brilliant and yet more important.

  46. Later in the day Chilvers drew a diagram of this exploit on the back of a menu card, and I paste it in here as a droll memento of this incident.

  47. We rested on top of the hill after this exploit and talked of the rare view and of other topics which had nothing whatever to do with golf.

  48. This seems to me all the more deplorable, because it is full of important lessons for those nations who are now attempting to exploit the regions she first brought them into contact with.

  49. But that was the proper caper, Perk, and you deserve to have a beautiful rug to show when telling this thrilling exploit to your grandchildren.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exploit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; accomplishment; achievement; act; action; adventure; apply; beguile; bestow; bleed; blow; clip; coup; dealings; deed; develop; doing; doings; drain; draw; effort; employ; endeavor; enterprise; event; exercise; exploit; feat; finesse; fleece; gest; gouge; hand; handiwork; handle; impose; improve; job; jockey; maneuver; manipulate; measure; milk; misuse; move; operation; overcharge; overtax; passage; performance; play; prey; proceeding; production; profit; profiteer; project; screw; skin; soak; step; stick; sting; stroke; stunt; surcharge; swindle; thing; transaction; turn; undertaking; use; utilize; venture; work; swindle; thing; transaction; turn; undertaking; use; utilize; venture; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exploitation exclusive economic zone; exploitation exclusive fishing zone; exploitation territorial