"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
1. broken promise = złamana obietnica broken promise
3. glowing promise = entuzjastyczna obietnica glowing promise
  • Except for Nessarose, and Shell, the Witch had never warmed to the glowing promise of children.
  • At fault, said Ms. Chen, are unscrupulous agents who advertise in China with glowing promises of well-paid jobs and easily affordable schooling.
  • But they now say, some with bitterness, that national leaders have forgotten the glowing promises they made at election time last year.
  • Taken at face value, this remark constitutes a glowing promise.
  • Jfs not just a lot of glowing promises and empty words, but facts.
  • Despite glowing promises of future benefits, the subject apparently was too esoteric.
  • That sounded less encouraging than Flora wished it did, but was perhaps more honest than the usual glowing promises.
  • But even more, the glowing economic promises met the realities of Iraq.
  • The Russkis made all sorts of glowing promises, but how many would they keep once they had their claws on him?
  • Some cities, such as New Orleans and Pontiac, Mich., are still trying to pay off huge operating deficits from stadiums built in the 1970's with glowing promises of revenue.
(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
(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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