(n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril.
(n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
(n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
(n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
(n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(2) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(3) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(4) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(5) The west's recent military adventures bear testimony to that.
(6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(7) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(8) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
(9) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
(10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(11) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
(12) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(13) But one source who knows the retailer well says Tesco's US adventure was most severely hit by the timing of the sub-prime crisis and the subsequent global economic downturn.
(14) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
(15) "The audience is up for a bit of excitement and adventure.
(16) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
(17) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(18) It’s not an adventure: not that much happens here,” the spouse of one said.
(19) Maxwell's life was as adventurous as Moneypenny's was unchanging.
(20) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.
(1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(2) The addition of epidemiologic analysis of risk factors for therapeutic misadventure (iatrogenic and self-induced) and for health status specific long- and short-term adverse drug experience will contribute substantially to drug safety in the elderly.
(3) Studies conducted in the United States during the past two decades related to drug misadventuring have been inadequate.
(4) Sloane Crosley's books, although different in tone to those of Gould and Daum – she self-mockingly writes of her own comic misadventures in a manner heavily influenced by David Sedaris – share a similar aspiration.
(5) Is the song Mile High about narcotic misadventures or misdemeanours on an aircraft?
(6) An original MoD inquest was held in secret in 1953 and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
(7) This study seeks to increase awareness of poison center ability to assist in management of the "therapeutic misadventure".
(8) Mechanism of injury included knife or arrow penetrations (25), firearm wounds (12), falls (17), overexertion (5), and misadventures with hazards (40).
(9) Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury.
(10) Twenty-eight ovaries from normal children of the same age who died from misadventure served as control.
(11) Some local cases are cited to illustrate the difference between misadventure and negligence.
(12) Drug misadventuring is defined, applicable public policy issues are identified and analyzed, and recommendations are suggested for reducing the magnitude and scope of drug misadventuring.
(13) The patient's family supposed neglection and therapeutic misadventure and raised an objection to the medical treatment.
(14) In England and Wales, 13% of maternal deaths were related to anaesthetic misadventures, but the Japanese incidence is not known.
(15) It appears that post-prostatectomy incontinence is not always due to a surgical misadventure.
(16) Yet by claiming the intervention was mostly about rooting out terrorists, Cameron also ignores or misunderstands, and certainly diminishes, the few, possibly temporary nation-building achievements Britain can point to during its latest, sorry misadventure in Afghanistan.
(17) Therapeutic misadventures with both drugs have resulted in childhood fatalities.
(18) The probable causes of these deaths include prenatal physiological handicaps resulting from placental insufficiency, aberrant parent-offspring behaviour, management-induced mismothering, misadventure, inadequate milk supply or teat and udder abnormalities, and cold-induced starvation.
(19) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(20) But it did not take a Gray diary - although a particularly brilliant one, Fat Chance (1995), did eventually materialise - for the off-stage shenanigans and misadventures surrounding Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates, to make the front pages.