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A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
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An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
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The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
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verb
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To undertake a risky or daring journey.
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To risk or offer.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
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To put or send on a venture or chance.
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to venture a horse to the West Indies
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To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
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To say something.
Examples of venture in a Sentence
He has no venture in the present.
It was obvious she was petrified to venture anywhere near the edge.
Dean knew he was being foolish beyond any measure of reason to venture even the short distance that would allow him to see beyond the overhang.
She was about to venture away from them when Bianca took her arm.
Irv Goldman was in charge of their ill-conceived venture while it was running, so their switch board tells me.
It wasn't somewhere she'd ever venture, even in daylight.
She eyed it nervously, not wanting to venture past the safety of the bedroom.
While Betsy loved her position, she was far more enchanted with our success and would adopt it as a full time venture in a minute.
They began to make alkali by the ammonia-soda process, under licence from the Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, but at first the venture threatened to prove a failure.
In 1494 a crushing victory of the emperor Maximilian drove the Turks out of Styria, which they did not venture again to invade during his reign.
These steaks are well worth a venture off the beaten path.
My other venture, After, has registered its first major success.
I have the least rewarding job of any of us so my desires are directed to family and this mind boggling venture Howie is taking us on.
On Monday I dared venture to Main Street to replenish our near-empty larder.
Did the Tugendbund which saved Europe" (they did not then venture to suggest that Russia had saved Europe) "do any harm?
It was a great venture in legislation for the United States.
Yes, I'm willing to admit, my last venture was a foolish mistake.
The chief feature in the new venture at first consisted of the analysis of the journals, which Cave undertook personally.
And then there's his latest venture.
Harold's perjury formed the chief excuse for the Norman Conquest of England, which in reality was a piratical venture resembling that of the sons of Tancred d'Hauteville in Lower Italy.
More than £8000 was expended upon the venture; and the work was performed for the first time in the French language and with the new Venusberg music on the 13th of March 1861.
Certainly no poet would venture to despise Wagner's imaginative conception of Kundry.
Even Voltaire did not venture to publish this lampoon on a great official of a prince so touchy as the king of Prussia without some permission, and if all tales are true he obtained this by another piece of something like forgery - getting the king to endorse a totally different pamphlet on its last leaf, and affixing that last leaf to Akakia.
Though we are by no means entitled to say that they acknowledged orthodox schismatics they did not yet venture to reckon them simply as heretics.
But if they venture on such falsehoods while I am still alive, how much more when I am gone will those who come after me dare to do so!"
They did not venture to disobey, and were distributed among the legions there.
In the light of facts such as these, who could venture to say what the future of Hinduism is likely to be ?
No traveller can venture into the mountain districts without the bessa of one of the inhabitants; once this has been obtained he will be hospitably welcomed.
A formal transfer to Japan was made in June of the same year in pursuance of the treaty, the ceremony taking place on board ship outside Kelung, as the Chinese commissioners did not venture to land.
Victoria.-The Port Phillip Magazine (1843) must be regarded as the first literary venture in Victoria.
Mind you, getting any new venture going can be very hard work.
If you want to venture beyond pot stickers, try the restaurant's popular chicken dishes, seasoned with sesame seeds, or the glazed prawns topped with roasted nuts.
Only then did she venture closer to where they.d been and snag a small box smoothly from the shelf, pushing it under everything else to the bottom of the bag.
The right, not often exercised, of the Magyar nobles to meet in general assembly and the elective character of the crown Stephen also did not venture to touch.
The sweepers continued their labours night after night, gradually extending the fairway up which heavy craft could safely venture.
This project was warmly encouraged by Abel, who contributed much to the success of the venture.
On the 28th of May Rupert and d'Estrees, believing that De Ruyter was too much afraid of their superior numbers to venture to sea, sent in a squadron of light vessels and fire-ships to attack him, but he took the offensive at once, scattering the light squadron, and falling with energy on the restof the fleet, which, not being in expectation of a vigorous assault, was taken at a disadvantage.
Travellers and strangers who venture into these jungles run the risk of fever of a severe type at almost all seasons of the year.
At a fourth venture the city fell, only to be evacuated in 1594.
The expenses of this very interesting venture were borne entirely by Morris, but after the issue of No.
If you're not feeling brave enough to venture out to Wal-Mart, you can find these camis online.
He declined the venture, but recommended the partner whom Bennett subsequently took.
Among these we may venture, quite tentatively, to mention the sermon at Nazareth which opened with a passage from the Book of Isaiah, the raising of the widow's son at Nain, and the parable of the good Samaritan.
This is from the second document, which he continues to use, and that without interruption (if we may venture to assign to it the raising of the widow's son at Nain and the anointing by the sinful woman in the Pharisee's house), until he returns to incorporate another section from St Mark.
The venture confirmed Lowell in his bent towards literature.
The coalmines of Labuan have been worked spasmodically, but success has never attended the venture.
A new venture will see him become director of an exclusive racing club.
Horizon has a tendency to side with the more conservative wing of science, effectively debunking theories that venture beyond the mainstream.
We therefore believe that this reduction of competition would create an effective duopoly between Le Shuttle and the joint venture.
But last Easter he talked her into giving it a try and a month later venture capitalists dropped $ 1m into their laps.