fruitionin a sentence
- The development brings our work closer to fruition.
- There is little hope the plan will ever reach fruition.
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Three days later, the plan came to fruition.
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fruition = when work creates its result
- This brought to fruition all those years of waiting.† (source)
- …and disputes about overtime rates, and the search for a site for a second factory about which the four unions involved had been generally sullen and had needed to be charmed and coaxed like children; and now, when all had been brought to fruition, there loomed the greater challenge yet of Army Amo, the khaki bar with the Pass the Amo! slogan; the concept rested on an assumption that spending on the Armed Forces must go on increasing if Mr. Hitler did not pipe down; there was even a…† (source)
- If the plans we were making came to fruition, all my dreams would come true.† (source)
- However, you and I remember that Uncle Monty's promise was laden with dramatic irony, and now, here in the early-morning gloom of the Reptile Room, that irony was going to come to fruition, a phrase which here means "the Baudelaires were finally to learn of it."† (source)
- Our original vision didn't come to fruition; the blueprint never came together.† (source)
- My father spent the last years of his life in discussion with Her Majesty in hopes of seeing an alliance to fruition.† (source)
- It was hard to believe that after all these months, his wicked scheme was minutes away from fruition.† (source)
- What I had unknowingly conjured up in my teatro productions came to fruition as land developers, along with county and city officials, tore up whole streets to build new townhouses, malls and expensive condos.† (source)
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- To more positive matters: the Clinic here is run along very clean and efficient lines, and is exploring various lines of treatment, including water therapy; and might act as a model for my own project, should it ever come to fruition.† (source)
- I felt a layer of sweat shimmer to the surface of my skin, because, finally, my wife's fears had come to fruition.† (source)
- =========================== With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its full fruition.† (source)
- Anaxagoras and Parmenides had a listener named Socrates who carried their ideas into full fruition.† (source)
- We thought … it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow" foregrounds the flowers, backgrounds illicit, traumatic, incomprehensible sex coming to its dreaded fruition.† (source)
- He had a rape case coming to fruition, the perp identified from a college face book and his statements transcribed and ready for the AG's office.† (source)
- From the north I summon earth and ask that you grow within this circle the gift of manifestation, that the wishes and prayers from tonight will come to fruition.† (source)
- In the recesses of the dragon's mind, Eragon sensed something unpleasant taking shape that, if allowed to reach fruition, might be the cause of much sorrow and regret.† (source)
- Isn't that what happens when things come to fruition?† (source)
- Back home in Wisconsin the chaplain had been very fond of gardening, and his heart welled with a glorious impression of fertility and fruition each time he contemplated the low, prickly boughs of the stunted trees and the waist-high weeds and thickets by which he was almost walled in.† (source)
- It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.† (source)
- Lexie was uneasy in the silence, and so she began describing the area: real estate projects that had never come to fruition, the names of trees, Cedar Creek when it could be seen through the thicket.† (source)
- I expel it and swear it will never come to fruition.† (source)
- Accursed is the mutant… The mutant, the enemy, not only of the human race, but of all the species God had decreed; the seed of the Devil within, trying unflaggingly, eternally to come to fruition in order that it might destroy the divine order and turn our land, the stronghold of God's will upon Earth, into a lewd chaos like the Fringes; trying to make it a place without the law, like the lands in the South that Uncle Axel had spoken of, where the plants and the animals and the…† (source)
- All that we had worked for in 2008 came to fruition in that moment, and we enjoyed it for a few days.† (source)
- He tried to persuade you that his vision is grand and worthwhile—that it will benefit all once it reaches fruition.† (source)
- But it was during another hunting trip that my business finally started to come to fruition.† (source)
- Carlson Young, the head of the entertainment division of the channel, had done quite a bit to bring these projects to fruition.† (source)
- I knew that if the dreams I had for our company came to fruition, I wanted Jep to be a part of it, and I couldn't just let him give it all up without saying something.† (source)
- Truly she was my childhood love, Miriam Bookbinder, come to fruition with all adult hormones in perfect orchestration.† (source)
- These plans were coordinated and brought to fruition by an architectural artist without peer.† (source)
- He had planted them apparently on an impulse; but it was really the fruition of a dream of his.† (source)
- A week later, the mayor's words came to nasty fruition. (source)
- Spring just opening into summer - morning just approaching noon - girlhood just ripening into womanhood, and hope just verging on fruition. (source)
- Is not my house right with God? Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part? Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire? (source)
- Where I may have fruition of her love. (source)
- Such is the hope, but the fruition is postponed. (source)
- Jefferson was a smart cat, and his fears about America's future are sadly coming to fruition.† (source)
- The bribes in the right places, the unthinkable expenditure to bring overwhelming military force down onto one planet …. all the sly reports tailored for the Emperor's ears alone, all the careful scheming were here at last coming to full fruition.† (source)
- As I gazed at the house, I realized that the months I'd spent preparing for our anniversary would reach fruition.† (source)
- Even with the aid of dryads and druids, it would take many years for such an undertaking to reach fruition, but once it was completed, it would be the greatest garden on earth.† (source)
- Thus I come to the notion of sexual fulfillment, which is another of those items I mentioned a while back and which I considered to be so richly a part of the fruition of my new life in Brooklyn.† (source)
- The fields needed rain for fruition.† (source)
- This was the long-pending hour of fruition.† (source)
- So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants.† (source)
- But the hour was one of natural fruition, wild life in the open, with the sun like an eye of the Creator, shining over the land.† (source)
- A Gothic statue implies celibacy, just as a Greek statue implies fruition, and perhaps this was what Mr. Beebe meant.† (source)
- The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way.† (source)
- It showed the craven in men; it proved the baneful influence of gold; it brought, in its fruition, the destiny of Alder Creek Camp.† (source)
- Decisions must be made—decisions of incalculable significance for the future happiness of Europe, and your country will have to make them, they must come to fruition within its soul.† (source)
- The strength in him then—the thing rife in him that was note hate, but something as remorseless—might have been the fiery fruition of a whole lifetime of vengeful quest.† (source)
- _ It is not often that hope is rewarded by fruition so completely as the wishes of the young men of the garrison were met by the state of the weather on the succeeding day.† (source)
- My fairest luck finds no fruition: In all the fullness of my vision The soulless sneak disturbs me thus!† (source)
- While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.† (source)
- It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished, and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year.† (source)
- I have, during those five-and-twenty years, spared no pains to understand the people of France and the interests which were confided to me; and now, when I see the fruition of my wishes almost within reach, the power I hold in my hands bursts, and shatters me to atoms!† (source)
- He had had beneficent inclinations, but they had stopped short of fruition; he had never committed himself, and his honour was safe.† (source)
- His reinstation of her mother had been chiefly for the girl's sake, and the fruition of the whole scheme was such dust and ashes as this.† (source)
- As his hero and heroine pass the matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then: the doubts and struggles of life ended: as if, once landed in the marriage country, all were green and pleasant there: and wife and husband had nothing to do but to link each other's arms together, and wander gently downwards towards old age in happy and perfect fruition.† (source)
- Then, indeed, it may be humbly hoped that the film which has been spread by the subtleties of earthly arguments will be dissipated by the spiritual light of Heaven; and that our hour of probation, by the aid of divine grace, being once passed in triumph, will be followed by an eternity of intelligence and endless ages of fruition.† (source)
- I do not doubt that in a few minds and far between, an ardent, inexhaustible love of truth springs up, self-supported, and living in ceaseless fruition without ever attaining the satisfaction which it seeks.† (source)
- They were full of hope and fruition.† (source)
- To bring this hope to fruition, we are compelled daily to turn more and more to a conscientious study of the phenomena of race-contact,—to a study frank and fair, and not falsified and colored by our wishes or our fears.† (source)
- No, Jane, no: this world is not the scene of fruition; do not attempt to make it so: nor of rest; do not turn slothful.† (source)
- They want something productive and substantial in their pleasures; they want to mix actual fruition with their joy.† (source)
- Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbour, saying that, to express his notion of the thing, his opinion (who ought not perchance to express one) was that one must have a cold constitution and a frigid genius not to be rejoiced by this freshest news of the fruition of her confinement since she had been in such pain through no fault of hers.† (source)
- Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.† (source)
- When America does what was promis'd, When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them, When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America, Then to me and mine our due fruition.† (source)
- Mother, bend down, bend close to me your face, I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for, I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.† (source)
- Long, Long Hence After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought, Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers, Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations, Then only may these songs reach fruition.† (source)
- Her beauty was still the object of desire, though greater beauty, or a fresher object, might have been more so; but the little abatement which fruition had occasioned to this was highly overbalanced by the considerations of the affection which she visibly bore him, and of the situation into which he had brought her.† (source)
- Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendeared, Casual fruition; nor in court-amours, Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.† (source)
- Because thou hast, though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition, quitted all, to save A world from utter loss, and hast been found By merit more than birthright Son of God, Found worthiest to be so by being good, Far more than great or high; because in thee Love hath abounded more than glory abounds; Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt With thee thy manhood also to this throne: Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt reign Both God and Man,…† (source)
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