How to use "opportunity" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "opportunity" in popular movie and book plots

  • Her classmates use the event as an opportunity to taunt her; led by Chris Hargensen, they throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her.  - Carrie (novel)
  • Maréchal and Rosenthal take the opportunity to lower themselves from a window by a homemade rope and flee.  - La Grande Illusion
  • When Jean shows up unannounced, Terry sees the opportunity to save her friend from the philandering Powell.  - Stage Door
  • When opportunity presents itself, purely out of habit, he steals a 40-sous coin from 12-year-old Petit Gervais and chases the boy away.  - Les Misérables
  • He wastes no opportunity to remind Elizabeth that she is very ill and possibly in danger of death.  - The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)
  • Donnie and Elizabeth take the opportunity to throw a Halloween party to celebrate her acceptance to Harvard.  - Donnie Darko
  • Chronotis to use the time machine to perform the magic trick, using the opportunity to lure an Electric Monk and its horse into the quarters.  - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • Blackie's feelings for Mary intensify, but complications arise when she is offered an opportunity to sing in the opera.  - San Francisco (1936 film)
  • The choir decides to make the most of its opportunity on the grand stage, and sings another song, "Swinging on a Star".  - Going My Way
  • One evening, Ned Land announces an opportunity to escape.  - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Gordon is forced from the property, with the satisfaction of knowing that there is now a new opportunity to trap Ayala.  - Traffic (2000 film)
  • Bernard sees an opportunity to thwart plans to exile him, and gets permission to take Linda and John back.  - Brave New World
  • Estragon sees an opportunity to exact revenge on Lucky for kicking him earlier.  - Waiting for Godot
  • Scarlett goes to the mill to keep Ashley there until party time, a rare opportunity for her to see him alone.  - Gone with the Wind (novel)
  • Carrie observes that they may have missed an opportunity and then returns to America.  - Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • Three years after Londo's death, Sheridan himself is on the verge of death and takes one last opportunity to gather his old friends together.  - Babylon 5

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