These directions he implicitly followed; and seizing a favorable opportunity, he leaped from the wagon and rapidly made his way in the direction of the city.
Seizing a favorable opportunity I asked him if he would deliver a note for me after his time for standing guard had expired, at the same time offering to repay him for his trouble.
In the year 1800, he found a favorable opportunity to escape from his unfeeling master, and made his way to Philadelphia, where he procured employment in a lumber-yard, under the name of John Smith.
She resolved to escape; and watching a favorable opportunity, she succeeded in reaching the neighborhood of Haddonfield, New Jersey.
They preferred to search the store in the absence of Friend Hopper, and watched nearly an hour for a favorable opportunity.
The liberty thus allowed gave her a favorable opportunity to abscond, which she did not fail to improve.
Soon afterwards, however, in February, 1792, Jefferson found a favorable opportunity to reveal his ideas to Washington.
But he was singularly apt to bide his time, to wait for a favorable opportunity and, whenever he saw a chance, he never failed to come back to his original line of conduct and to his original policies.
Sometimes the goods were brought near the frontiers and there hidden in the ground until a favorable opportunity offered to steal them into the country.
They had not proceeded far before they discovered an Indian watching their camp, as if awaiting a favorable opportunity to make a descent on the animals.
King of England, she began to consider him and his queen as her mortal enemies; and the present situation of affairs in Scotland afforded her a favorable opportunity, both of revenging the injury, and providing for her own safety.
These all harbored a deep-seated dislike towards Rome, and only awaited a favorable opportunity to renew the breach with her.
Our general then concealed himself with his men on a rising ground, in order to watch for a favorable opportunity of falling upon these Bacchanalians.
You shall please yourself how soon you declare the marriage, but I should advise, strongly advise that you wait for a favorable opportunity.
Not a famous one by any means--only a fifth-rate one at present; but she was waiting for a favorable opportunity to become a first-rate one.
With compressed lips, he commenced the attack again, and, seizing a favorable opportunity, permitted his opponent's sword to cut his arm.
After waiting for a favorable opportunity, I ventured to ask one of them if there wasn't enough big cannon already mounted to bombard that fort over there, pointing toward Pickens.
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
The vacancy may be refilled with any available card from the tableau or from the talon, but you are not obliged to refill it until a favorable opportunity occurs.
When a vacancy in the square is caused by the removal of an entire packet, the space may be filled by one card from the talon or pack, but this need not be done until a favorable opportunity occurs.
You should now examine the star, to see if there are any available cards which it would be advantageous to marry, or to play (Rules I and II), but you are not obliged to do either until a favorable opportunity occurs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favorable opportunity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
