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.
  • Take a look at this entire enterprise from her point of view.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The drug trade remains, for the most part, a cash enterprise.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This has made a full-time role on the show a truly high-stakes enterprise.
    — Kirthana Ramisetti, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There’s room for many winners in the enterprise world.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The whole enterprise felt like a losing game.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This is the first and last mile of enterprise AI.
    — Andrew Antos, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • And the way to do that was to establish a new form of enterprise.
    — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • This comes at a time when football as an enterprise is in trouble.
    — NBC News, 27 May 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
  • There will still be a huge market for this type of enterprise in the Biden era.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
  • As the sun set beyond the pool deck, Rosero laid out his enterprise for me.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Finding love has never been an enterprise for the faint of heart.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There were legal risks from the early days of his enterprise.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Yielding too soon dooms the whole enterprise (as does not yielding at all).
    — Laura Kipnis, The Cut, 10 June 2018
  • An essential pop-up enterprise, the kitchen and its labors have not stopped.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Now, that’s going to be the name of the entire enterprise.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Stopping to peel off one’s pants could derail the whole enterprise.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • By 1931, the enterprise filled a city block.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • That kind of control is at the heart of the Amazon enterprise.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Not every enterprise got past the beta stage.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • 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 isn't a good time to try something brand-new or to dabble in risky enterprises.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • This is where doubts about Virgin being a true space enterprise start to bite.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • That is the part of enterprise AI work that rarely appears in demos.
    — Valentyn Kropov, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Stern notched $300 in sales the first hour his enterprise was up and running.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020

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