How to Use pursue in a Sentence

pursue

verb
  • Hounds pursued the fox for miles.
  • He chose to pursue a college degree.
  • She wants to pursue a legal career.
  • The criminal is being pursued by police.
  • But the shutdown pushed him to pursue that goal at warp speed.
    — John Caplan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There's not only the choice of whether to pursue the seat but how.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Palace, though, are not certain to pursue a deal.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Yeomans’s team pursued them one by one, but each proved to be a dead end.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Bar was prudent to not pursue that.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The customer who was pushed did not want to pursue the matter.
    — cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Netflix chose to not pursue a deal, those people said.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
  • Khamenei could choose to do what his father never did — pursue the bomb.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • He's paused his master's degree to pursue the project full time.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 14 June 2022
  • If there’s no passion to your story, don’t pursue it.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2026
  • The problem is, those who share that goal disagree about the best way to pursue it.
    — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • The deputy, along with backup deputies, began to pursue them.
    — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2023
  • To do so is to pursue a pleasure of a different kind.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
  • But Pages did not pursue it to the wall, backing off to play the ball on a bounce.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Even then, the city didn’t pursue a settlement.
    — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Her greatest hope at the time was to pursue more work on Broadway.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But that was enough for Callahan to pursue the issue back home.
    — Brendan Borrell, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The students will be pursuing the arts at college in the fall.
    — Michelle Mullins, Elgin Courier-News, 22 June 2018
  • What’s more obvious is why the Kings would want to pursue him.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2021
  • That was the sum that would buy him freedom to pursue policy work.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Jack gives a very moving speech about how Kate should pursue music.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2018
  • As the disciple swam, he was pursued by the same water beast.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • If pursued in the right way, your vocation could add years of healthy living.
    — Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
  • But neither state has yet pursued a case against the carriers.
    — Wired, 5 Nov. 2019
  • To all the women/girls out there, do not be deterred from pursuing your dreams.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The woman did not want to pursue charges, but wanted her son to pay for the damage done.
    — cleveland, 28 July 2021

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