"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

promise sustantivo

sustantivo + promise
Kolokacji: 7
campaign promise • election promise • Government promise • promise of life • Scout Promise • ...
promise + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
Promise Keeper • Promise Ring • Promise Land
promise + verbo
Kolokacji: 15
promise makes • promise comes • promise keeps • promise proves • promise seems • ...
verbo + promise
Kolokacji: 40
show promise • hold promise • make promises • give promise • keep one's promise • break one's promise • fulfil one's promise • ...
adjetivo + promise
Kolokacji: 89
great promise • broken promise • early promise • empty promise • false promise • vague promise • solemn promise • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(2) broken, contractual, glowing
Kolokacji: 3
(4) empty, hollow
Kolokacji: 2
(6) vague, faint
Kolokacji: 2
(7) solemn, real
Kolokacji: 2
(9) similar, verbal, oral
Kolokacji: 3
(11) bright, rosy
Kolokacji: 2
1. bright promise = jasna obietnica bright promise
2. rosy promise = różowa obietnica rosy promise
  • But we would prefer to believe in rosy promises and hence find proponents of the budget "waiver."
  • Some critics also charge that the schools make rosy promises about jobs for their graduates that do not materialize.
  • Can we trust rosy promises about pulling out of hard times from a man whose economic record is the worst since Jimmy - since Herbert Hoover?
  • The first is that industry, despite all sorts of rosy promises, has neither the will nor technology to contain a major spill.
  • And he rose to the top of the company in large part by keeping his head down as the rosy promises behind the merger fell apart.
  • Like his compatriots, he has no more illusions about glasnost or rosy promises of peaceful dialogue on the way to freedom.
  • You people have been enticed into coming out here by rosy promises and you are understandably disappointed.
  • But we disagree when you say the industry has been using "rosy promises" to mislead the public about the capability to clean up spills.
  • The sun was halfway up now, painting the sky with rosy promise, and the black road ran straight into it.
  • But now Americans say they are skeptical of such rosy promises.
(14) extravagant, lavish
Kolokacji: 2
(16) electoral, pre-election, major
Kolokacji: 3
(17) bold, rash
Kolokacji: 2
(18) mere, simple
Kolokacji: 2
(19) firm, long-standing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) sweet, tantalizing, public
Kolokacji: 3
(21) utopian, official
Kolokacji: 2
(22) long-term, longstanding
Kolokacji: 2
(24) sensual, erotic, seductive
Kolokacji: 3
(25) divine, sacred
Kolokacji: 2
(26) conditional, unconditional
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + promise
Kolokacji: 19
despite promises • of promise • on one's promise • to one's promise • in one's promise • ...

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