VENERABLE in a Sentence
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86 example sentences for VENERABLE, such as:
1. The cathedral is a venerable building.
2. May Day has become a venerable institution.
3. To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.
4. The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
5. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.
2. May Day has become a venerable institution.
3. To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.
4. The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
5. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.
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Meanings and Examples of VENERABLE
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venerable
a. deserving high respect; impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1 Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing more venerable possible.
2 Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.
3 It was concluded that some relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop.
4 The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.
5 The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
6 To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
7 The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
8 There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it.
9 He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
10 Nothing in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; venerable growth reigned there among them.
11 Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
12 Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed his brow on the preceding evening.
13 Madeleine re-appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable.
14 In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of children.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
15 The two friends began to dance around the venerable St. Chrysostom, kicking about famously the sheets of the thesis, which had fallen on the floor.
Example Sentence:
1 The cathedral is a venerable building.
2 May Day has become a venerable institution.
3 We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.
4 He felt more than simple admiration for Miss Euston; he experienced a kind of veneration for her.
5 Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
6 This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia's most venerated public place, and traditionalists were not amused.
7 In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.