Sample Sentences for

decisive

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Tonight, they play the decisive game seven of the series.

In the end, it is character that is the decisive factor in a person's life.

She took decisive action to turn her life around.

Apparently, there had been a brief and decisive skirmish and I'd just missed it.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

"Just the same, we got to get you home again, Winnie," said Tuck, standing up decisively.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

But here again, Curtis played a decisive role in my life.  (source) Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, 1990

"Okay then, I'll pick you up, no problem," Mom said decisively, sweeping the half-grapes into a snack bag with the side of her knife.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

The hairy outlaw gave a loud and decisive snort.  (source) Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy, 1986

Paul turned decisively back to his repair job.  (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

Something had to be done, something decisive—he couldn't spend the rest of the school year hiding from Dana Matherson and Beatrice Leep.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

I nod decisively, at the last minute softening the gesture with a tilt of my head.  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

I'd taken a decisive step, and Dad could rest easy now, knowing the Selection was properly under way and that I wouldn't let him down.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Heir, 2015

They rested a minute on the open window, then he shook his head decisively.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

We need a decisive leader who can act quickly without losing time in consultation.

It was actually quite fortunate that they saw Frau Holtzapfel coming from the living room window, for her knuckles on the door were hard and decisive.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

You need to be strong, decisive.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Heir, 2015

He had to have discipline, and that meant demanding—and getting—quick, decisive obedience.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

THOUGH WHEN he sat on a campaign chair his legs didn't reach the floor, Colonel Pietro Insana was a man of great decisiveness.†  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

She did this decisively, one jab and one grind, not the series of genteel taps favored by many of the Wives.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

Their decisive movements showed they knew exactly where to go and what they were looking for.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

Her decisiveness seemed to drive the others into action.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

Patria closed her purse with a decisive snap. "Let's just go."  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

With an air of weary decisiveness, I opened the window, took the binoculars and climbed onto the ledge.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

His tone grew decisive.  (source) John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

But the decisiveness of her message shook him to his very marrow, and when he walked into the cool shadows of the drawing room he did not have time to think about the miracle he was experiencing because his intestines suddenly filled in an explosion of painful foam.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

As he pushed down, the raised circle on the box slid into the ring's opening, and there was a faint but decisive click.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009