How to Use enterprising in a Sentence

enterprising

adjective

• As an enterprising young reporter, she covered many important stories.
• Some time after that, an enterprising soul added tomatoes to the mix.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
• That could open up a role for an enterprising neutral country or some small group of them to try to broker peace.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Add to that mix of experts a swarm of biotech founders and investors, and the talk got pretty enterprising.
  — Grace Huckins, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2025
• Some enterprising restaurants score the skin with a knife to increase the crisp factor.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• What’s the point of putting it where some enterprising reporter would invariably find it?
  — Dallas News, 27 July 2022
• And that's not all that's in store for the enterprising young McBoatface.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2017
• Each had a little zinc bar on which the more enterprising proprietors served coffee or a plate of food.
  — Stephen Heyman, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2019
• Maybe some enterprising chef will find the perfect recipe and cooking technique.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• Some of the more enterprising among us have secured these and other goods in bulk to sell at higher prices to others.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
• But even the most enterprising farmers struggled to grow wheat and other crops in the gravelly, sandy soil.
  — Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• This is before phones with cameras were ubiquitous at shows, but some enterprising fans still captured much of the set.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
• The cowboys and cowgirls lined up behind stalls to sample and take home the enterprising products.
  — Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
• Even the more playful dishes, like tater tots dusted with chaat masala, feel like those clever snacks devised in a pinch by an enterprising home cook.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• There is almost no place on the island where the enterprising scavenger couple couldn't stand a decent chance of adding to their pile.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• This seems like a project an enterprising high school class could get done in one semester and not a reason to delay making our streets safer.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022
• There's almost no place on the island where the enterprising scavenger couple couldn't stand a decent chance of adding to their pile.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• All Stanford students are ambitious, but many of the most enterprising among them drop out.
  — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• And key to it all was the enterprising man few remember, Tony Cornero.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• And in every room, the walls still reveal both their former life as a pipeline and the story of an enterprising young couple seeking a home of their own.
  — Andrea Galyean, azcentral, 15 Mar. 2018
• That Lovett is enterprising — an innovator, if a macabre one; this Lovett struggles to stay afloat.
  — Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 4 May 2025
• While many enterprising young people are raising funds for causes close to the heart, the amount Hayley has brought in is unusual.
  — Sophia Tareen, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
• To help an enterprising farmer establish a farm, the couple decided to offer a free 30-year land lease on up to five acres.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• These were private bankers who wanted to bring their talents and their client relationships somewhere more enterprising.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2025
• Perhaps a truly enterprising bear could convince the AI to take the bear for a cozy ride while inside the self-driving car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• The dog traces its roots to ancient Rome, where an enterprising fellow saw a too-hot empty pig’s intestine puff up and got the idea to stuff it with meats.
  — Jane Levere, latimes.com, 4 July 2017
• So an enterprising group has sprung up on Reddit to hack the game by pasting in better images from Google Maps.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2020
• In the early years of fantasy football, the most enterprising commissioners would produce write-ups, type them up and mail them out.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
• One question now is if there are headwinds ahead for the enterprising local Baltic national film industries.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
• If an enterprising restaurateur is eager to grill up some insects and make a mint in the West Village, the time has never been riper.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017