Sample sentences for OPPORTUNE

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Definition

favorable circumstances for a particular purpose — especially the circumstance of good timing

They launched their company at an opportune time.

opportune = favorable

With concern raised by the recent tragedy, this is an opportune time to introduce the legislation.

opportune = favorable

It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

inopportuneness = inappropriateness (bad circumstances)

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inopportuneness means not and reverses the meaning of opportuneness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials...
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

opportune = favorable

During the rare, inopportune social moments when I found myself squeezed between black and white, I fled to the black side,
James McBride -- The Color of Water

inopportune = bad circumstances

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inopportune means not and reverses the meaning of opportune. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

But that perversity, which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

inopportune = bad

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inopportune means not and reverses the meaning of opportune. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

opportune = timely or advantageous

The attack upon the Maeterlinck school could not have been made at a more opportune moment.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
an opportune place to make camp
Weston's visit this morning was in another respect particularly opportune.
Austen, Jane -- Emma
What I would emphasise is, that under the head of Pride your sister is a great and opportune example to you.
Dickens, Charles -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Your coming to our house is, in no respect, opportune.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
If Lady Lydiard had been actually in league with him, she could not have chosen a more opportune time for her visit.
Collins, Wilkie -- My Lady's Money
"Your entrance," she murmured, "was most opportune, besides being very welcome."
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
an opportune arrival
An opportune belt of shrubs that ran from the gate adjoining the road to a point not far from the house gave him just the cover he needed.
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville -- Uneasy Money
He then sallied out in quest of him, and very opportunely left the lovers to enjoy a few tender minutes alone.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
Melanie wasn't much given to giggling, but Pet had been, and her body betrayed me at this most inopportune moment.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inopportune means not and reverses the meaning of opportune. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

Time, the continual vicissitude of circumstances, and the invariable inopportunity of death, render it impossible.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inopportunity means not and reverses the meaning of opportunity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

And now perhaps would be an opportune moment to realize the consequences of your gallantry towards this lady.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf

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