Sentence examples for an enterprising character from inspiring English sources

An enterprising character who worked at various times as a press photographer and a chocolate biscuit salesman, Paton later ran a snooker hall and was a respected referee on the green-baize circuit.

The bold and enterprising character of her present inhabitants cannot fail of rendering it a great, wealthy, and powerful state.

The Verbruggens were essential to the play, not least because Vanbrugh had customised the sprightly temptress Berinthia to Susanna's talents and reputation for witty, roguish, sexually enterprising characters, most recently Mrs Buxom in Thomas D'Urfey's Don Quixote (a success thanks to "the extraordinary well acting of Mrs Verbruggen", wrote D'Urfey).

Big Movies for Little Kids (Monday) This big movie is more like a series of little ones: selected episodes from the animated television series "Pingu," whose title character is an enterprising young penguin.

Once again an enterprising playwright (Lucas Hnath, in this case) has attempted to look at centuries-old culture by having a young genius (and partly named title character) do battle with an older contemporary, rising to far greater notoriety when all is said and done.

For an enterprising publisher, therefore, there was really only one solution: give Austen's characters a new lease of life by splicing them with another, equally popular genre.

West made an enterprising four-spade bid.

Perhaps even an enterprising pigeon or two.

Mr. Kosugi is an enterprising chef.

Now an enterprising publisher, OR Books, has gathered many of those Twitter messages for a book, "Tweets From Tahrir," a narrative of the revolution told in snippets of 140 characters or less.

"Al Haymon is an enterprising young man," King said.