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Sentences for opportunity. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use opportunity in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for opportunity.

• It is an opportunity. (9)
• Opportunity for gossip! (10)
• Such an opportunity alas! (4)
• He had seized his opportunity. (10)
• Soames awaited his opportunity. (8)
• But I suppose you had no opportunity. (4)
• We will remember it at a fitting opportunity. (5)
• The opportunity was offered by Sir Willoughby. (10)
• Here was an opportunity to mortify the Countess. (10)
• He resolved to do it when the opportunity should come. (22)
• Clara stood gathered up, despairing at opportunity lost. (10)
• Bartley saw his opportunity at the word paint, and cut in. (9)
• I am to be at once the opportunity and the way of escape. (12)
• Intending purchasers were aware of an unrivaled opportunity. (2)
• He had lost a splendid opportunity, and Farina had seized it. (10)
• It was an opportunity that they must not think of throwing away. (9)
• But the proud society of the burglarious denied him opportunity. (10)
• She put the question at the first opportunity to an aunt of hers. (10)
• He flushed, but was not sure of his opportunity for the explosion. (22)
• Is it to revive memories or give the opportunity for an explanation? (12)
• It was a splendid opportunity for the kind of warfare Indians loved. (19)
• A glorious opportunity was now at hand of carrying out their schemes. (19)
• That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time. (1)
• He intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene. (8)
• He never forgives, and he never persecutes; he waits for his opportunity. (10)
• I take this opportunity of saying that justice in this town is a travesty. (8)
• The fellow seems to have a turn for catching his opportunity by the tail. (10)
• She did not even perceive the opportunity offered to her for a wily performance. (10)
• She did not even perceive the opportunity offered to her for a wily performance. (22)
• Selwyn now had an opportunity to go calmly over the points at issue with Carlisle. (18)
• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. (4)
• Of violating it he had practically no opportunity, and this rendered his position stronger. (8)
• Christian thought of taking advantage of this opportunity to send the pearls to his mother. (12)
• The first moment I could steal unnoticed, I took the opportunity of asking if Guy were come. (6)
• The Countess then proceeded to tell him how foolishly he had let slip his great opportunity. (10)
• And now, dear Ugo, you have your opportunity to denounce her as a convicted screecher by night. (10)
• He awaited, therefore, his opportunity till Irene was handing the architect his first cup of tea. (8)
• Such a retiring man as Hilary was seldom given the opportunity for an obvious display of chivalry. (8)
• The hope of an opportunity, which Sir Thomas had then given, was not given to be thought of no more. (4)
• The winter did not renew for Christine and Mela the social opportunity which the spring had offered. (9)
• Merthyr seized the opportunity of her name being pronounced to get clear tidings of her, if possible. (10)
• Roderick Barclugh had an unerring opportunity to study the bearing of Miss Mollie in all its details. (18)
• The circus concert offers opportunity for a display of talents other than those presented in the ring. (21)
• Deliverance from the flames of purgatory would never be more cheaply purchased than at this opportunity. (5)
• She was stopped by a slight fit of coughing, and Mr. Weston instantly seized the opportunity of going on. (4)
• When the card-tables were placed, he had the opportunity of obliging her in turn, by sitting down to whist. (4)
• In that case, I would seize my opportunity and her waist, and tell her she was locked up from anybody else. (10)
• In that case, I would seize my opportunity and her waist, and tell her she was locked up from anybody else. (22)
• Of a far higher quality is the will that can subdue itself to wait, and lay no petty traps for opportunity. (10)
• Hearing this, she rose out of her clamorous heart, and seized the opportunity for a small burst of melodrama. (10)
• Tea was carrying round, and Mr. Weston, having said all that he wanted, soon took the opportunity of walking away. (4)
• The valiant youth now saw with joy the long-looked-for opportunity arrive at his door, and he obeyed the summons. (19)
• Some of the great properties in this class belong to journalists who saw an opportunity a decade ago, and grasped it. (16)
• It is true that none of the swells gave her the opportunity of examining them at close range, as the highhotes had done. (9)
• I shall deliver it when he recovers and watch my opportunity to learn its contents after he has broken the seal himself. (18)
• He welcomed the opportunity for enlarging his Spanish studies, and he had an honest desire to represent his country well. (14)
• Rose made a noise about the encounter, and Laxley was eager for his opportunity, which he saw in the proposed mad gallop. (10)
• Wise youths who buy their loves, are not unwilling, when opportunity offers, to try and obtain the commodity for nothing. (10)
• There used to be very good circuses in Venice, where many Venetians had the only opportunity of their lives to see a horse. (9)
• True, there is still opportunity in small towns for editorial courage and ability; William Allen White has demonstrated that. (16)
• The song held me in a kind of spell, but when it had died away I recovered and instantly perceived what I thought an opportunity. (1)
• Each person of the number seeming pleased at the momentary opportunity of finding a new listener, save my tall companion of the coupe. (6)
• If you will only consent to consider my love, so that I shall have an opportunity to prove my worthiness, I shall be more than happy. (18)
• He had not yet given her an opportunity for dissenting; she was compelled to agree, dragged at his chariot-wheels in headlong agreement. (10)
• He omitted no opportunity of being with them, threw himself in their way, called at all hours; but I need not be particular on this subject. (4)
• She hoped, however, to foster a discussion, so that they might really get further this week-end; the opportunity was too good to throw away. (8)
• I was introducing her into good company, and giving her the opportunity of pleasing some one worth having; I ought not to have attempted more. (4)
• It was not long before Helen had the opportunity she desired of finding out from the trustees what was the truth beneath the newspaper gossip. (13)
• Mr. Tilbody had drawn a little away from him, but paused and turned half toward him, apparently reluctant to forego the continuing opportunity. (1)
• Aunt Juley pouted; she herself had always been thin, but the only pleasure she derived from the fact was the opportunity of longing to be stouter. (8)
• A corresponding sentiment of patient compassion, akin to scorn, is provoked by persons having the opportunity for pathos, and declining to use it. (10)
• Courtly Sir John Loring ran up at once, and gave the diplomatist an opportunity to thank her flatteringly for gaining them two minutes to themselves. (10)
• He was always attempting new things, and he never ceased endeavoring to make his scholarship reparation for the want of earlier opportunity and training. (9)
• Given the education, the experience, the needed judicial temperament, and the writing ability, all these are no assurance that opportunity can be found to utilize them. (16)

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