EMINENCE in a Sentence
Learn EMINENCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
52 example sentences for EMINENCE, such as:
1. We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
2. The students are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
3. He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
4. Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
5. No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
2. The students are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
3. He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
4. Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
5. No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
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Meanings and Examples of EMINENCE
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eminence
n. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
n. high status importance owing to marked superiority
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1 The spire of Bolney Minster, Rough Norton woods, and on an eminence rather to the left, Hogben's Folly, so called because.
2 Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
3 No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
4 He did not turn aside to the cottage, but pushed on to an eminence, whence he could see over the whole quarter that had once been Eustacia's home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
5 His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
6 And yet the men of civil eminence, who came immediately behind the military escort, were better worth a thoughtful observer's eye.
7 I am the umble instrument of umbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could have hoped to reach.
8 Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
9 He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet bearing the inscription Ancient Barrier No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
10 He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
11 They had no realization of what her life had been before she reached her present safe eminence in her mansion on Peachtree Street.
12 After descending an eminence to a low bottom, through which a swift stream glided, they suddenly came to a place where the party of Le Renard had made a halt.
13 de Villefort held a high position in the magistracy, and maintained his eminence like a Harlay or a Mole.
14 I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
15 He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.
Example Sentence:
1 These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person -- that being better suited to the still smaller fry -- but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
2 I honor endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
3 The two great commanders sat at together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
4 Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.
5 After his appointment to this eminent position, he seldom had time for his former friends.
6 New York's eminent domain statute is virtually capital punishment for property owners.
7 The students are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
8 We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
9 I'm hovering in a makeshift kitchen, watching one of Italy's most eminent marine biologists gleefully playing chef.
10 This seems eminently sensible, and indeed studies indicate that this approach can work best for some people.