[ US /pɝˈsu/ ]
[ UK /pəsjˈuː/ ]
VERB
  1. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
    She pursued many activities
    They engaged in a discussion
  2. go in search of or hunt for
    pursue a hobby
  3. carry further or advance
    Can you act on this matter soon?
  4. follow in or as if in pursuit
    The police car pursued the suspected attacker
    Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life
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How To Use pursue In A Sentence

  • They can't say conclusively he's not alive, and the presumption is they must aggressively pursue every avenue of this case. Scott Speicher
  • Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
  • It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
  • Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • Results of this study show that females' greatest reported motivation for going to discos is to meet new people rather than to pursue sexual opportunities or to flirt.
  • When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.
  • There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
  • If you are passionate about something, pursue it.
  • It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
  • All of the information collated here is part of a wider investigation currently being pursued by a number of media outlets.
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