How to Use venturesome in a Sentence

venturesome

adjective
  • The venturesome looked to private markets for higher returns.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • But now consumers are more venturesome and subscriptions are less necessary.
    — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • At eighteen, he was hired as the touring keyboard player for the venturesome pop singer Imogen Heap, a job that led to work as a session musician.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Their venturesome spirit drew them to search for a home in the Flatiron District, an evolving neighborhood now home to boutiques and gourmet restaurants.
    — Jill Gerston, ELLE Decor, 27 Dec. 2010
  • But those venturesome pioneers crafted a system that unleashed human potential, and their successors built upon it.
    — WSJ, 25 Feb. 2017
  • Befitting its location among a new wave of youthful, venturesome downtown dwellers, the shop will cater to a buzzy subculture of drinkers, specializing in natural wine.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe low-budget films, documentaries, and foreign language fare didn’t always take up the slack, but the best of them at least tried to be more venturesome than the usual ossified studio product.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Part of a string of recent high-profile divorce records, Chemistry represents Clarkson at her most venturesome and liberated.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • For Bitcoin believers, where the business world's top trendsetter goes, venturesome corporate captains will follow.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 May 2021
  • Yet despite several of these being substantial works by some of our most noted and venturesome composers, few bicentennial commissions have survived.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • In Spalding, King has found another venturesome partner to reveal what’s actually happening, both in the moment, and in the countless moments on the way to the stage.
    — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Second, Chinese shoppers are voracious and venturesome, an advantage to innovators with clever products but unfamiliar brands.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Though not widely celebrated in America, Indo-Chinese food is familiar to in-the-know locals and venturesome food travelers like myself.
    — David Shaftel, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Through this exhibition program, which shed a light on a generation of LA artists, The Box quickly established itself as a venturesome gallery and one of the most important in the city.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to chronicling episodes from this brave, venturesome life, Drury depicts modern-day nurses, mothers and other caregivers, sometimes imagining them as time-traveling avatars of Seacole herself — hence the plural of the title.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022

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