(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.
Swashbuckler
Definition:
(n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Only Chelsea are above Brendan Rodgers' swashbuckling side in the Premier League table now.
(3) Eliot Spitzer, who as the swashbuckling New York state attorney general unearthed the stock ramping of the dotcom bubble, was elected governor of New York in January 2007 but lasted less than 18 months after he was linked to a prostitution ring and forced to quit.
(4) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(5) It was hard to know what to expect from United: would we see the swashbuckling side that stormed past Olympiakos on Wednesday night to reach the last eight of the Champions League or the one that was embarrassed by Liverpool?
(6) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(7) The film begins in 2008, and follows the WikiLeaks founder's ascent from underground hacktivist to international terrorist, in the eyes of Washington, or swashbuckling cyberhero to his admirers.
(8) The appearance of Ballesteros on that list is especially pertinent, given the swashbuckling style which links him and Mickelson.
(9) Peacock was a swashbuckling centre-forward when he was on Bristol City’s books as a schoolboy, until he was 14.
(10) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(11) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(12) He’s the Bundesliga’s most successful foreign goal-scorer (176 goals before the start of the season), he looks like a swashbuckling 1950s film star and his signing promised nothing less than a return to the good old times, when Werder weren’t serial relegation contenders but taking on Europe’s heavyweights in the Champions League.
(13) Swashbuckling victories over Croatia caught the eye, but Terry's most admirable display came in leading a youthful team to victory in Berlin.
(14) Predictably, Cardinale and Rochefort had worked together before – in a 1962 swashbuckler called Cartouche, also starring Jean-Paul Belmondo .
(15) Barely 12 months later, the Shell lifer has turned into a swashbuckling corporate acquirer, agreeing to take over BG in one of the biggest deals ever seen in the energy sector.
(16) The Algerian, Spanish and even Germans fans in Gijón were disgusted by what they witnessed and waved white hankies and so on to protest,” says Chaabane Merzekane, a full-back whose swashbuckling performance in toppling the Germans earned him the man-of-the-match award.
(17) He was seen as a back-to-basics operator by the City who loved Browne's swashbuckling style until the share price began to suffer after the Texas City fire, a pipeline spill in Alaska and a propylene trading scandal.
(18) Their eye-pleasing, swashbuckling style has served them well on the domestic front over the past two seasons, but not so well in Europe.
(19) A similar swashbuckling spirit – and, perhaps, Ferdinand's presence on the coaching staff – was one of the factors that attracted Pienaar to Spurs.
(20) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.