How to Use enterprise in a Sentence

enterprise

noun

• He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.
• Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.
• When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise.
• Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.
• But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The stench of blackmail hangs over the whole enterprise.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• And the way to do that was to establish a new form of enterprise.
  — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• That kind of control is at the heart of the Amazon enterprise.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Take a look at this entire enterprise from her point of view.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• There will still be a huge market for this type of enterprise in the Biden era.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• This has made a full-time role on the show a truly high-stakes enterprise.
  — Kirthana Ramisetti, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
• There were legal risks from the early days of his enterprise.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
• Then, the fickle weather gods must smile on the enterprise.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• As the sun set beyond the pool deck, Rosero laid out his enterprise for me.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• The whole enterprise was swept off the public markets and into their hands.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• The big boss might be one bad apple, but the whole enterprise is an apple pie.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
• This comes at a time when football as an enterprise is in trouble.
  — NBC News, 27 May 2018
• State and federal funds have since padded the enterprise.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
• Every sticker on the car means a little more money to keep the enterprise afloat.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
• Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• So the value of the ranking enterprise to those who use them is ambiguous at best.
  — Abba Krieger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2020
• It wasn't supposed to come to this, but the entire enterprise had been poorly planned from the start.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2018
• Nelson felt too guilty about the entire enterprise and quit.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2020
• The same is going to be the case for countless other enterprises, small and large.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• Everyone who works there is a partner in the enterprise.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• The enterprise has grown rapidly and now is its own company.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• An essential pop-up enterprise, the kitchen and its labors have not stopped.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• The fun, when tied to a dollar sign, gives a gimmicky quality to the whole enterprise.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• Riot views esports as part of the game business, rather than as a sports enterprise per se.
  — Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• This is where doubts about Virgin being a true space enterprise start to bite.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 12 July 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024