STATUS in a Sentence

Learn STATUS 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.
106 example sentences for STATUS, such as:
1. The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.
2. Marrying a rich woman helped him achieve status.
3. They have no wish for any change in the status quo.
4. His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
5. Some tribes use special facial markings to signify status.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STATUS
status
 n.  the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
 n.  a state at a particular time
Classic Sentence:
1  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, so inadequately covered by their courtesy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  Finally, with Georgia in the status of a military province, the polls had been ordered thrown open to the negroes, whether the state's laws permitted it or not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  For even if he could have taken his consulship from one man, or his status as a senator from another, he could not abolish the senatorial rank nor pass new laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
6  The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  Moreover, the political status of the Negro in the South is closely connected with the question of Negro crime.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's civil status.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  Madeleine, had regained his status and rehabilitated himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.
2  Marrying a rich woman helped him achieve status.
3  Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
4  They have no wish for any change in the status quo.
5  Few would dispute his status as the finest artist of the period.
6  Some tribes use special facial markings to signify status.
7  His career has blossomed and that has given him a certain elevated status.
8  It was argued that the civil and political status and rights of the citizen must be enshrined in a bill of rights.
9  The association works to promote the status of retired people as useful members of the community.
10  Applicants should have a degree or a qualification of equal status.
11  Few homeworkers doing piecework in manufacturing enjoy employee status.
12  Freelance workers do not enjoy the benefits of employee status.
13  His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
14  Environmental conservation generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo.
15  The final status negotiations would focus on the core issues of the peace process.