potentiality

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“I’m not crying, ‘Oh, poor me, I’ve been flooded,’ because I knew of the potentiality of it and I prepared for it.”

From Seattle Times

From here, we move to the third card, which is our potentiality card: What is emerging?

From Los Angeles Times

They are important because they reaffirm the place of form and imagination in times that would deny their potentialities.

From New York Times

So there was something wanton, even brazenly wasteful in sacrificing an ox to the gods — a loss of not only the animal’s life but the potentiality it represented for human success and survival.

From New York Times

“Obviously when I think about the potentialities of somebody getting sick because I was addressing this group, that would be very difficult to live with. So I really regret that happening.”

From Los Angeles Times