Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use dignified in a sentence

31 example sentences · adjective

Dignified means having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise. Example: “She made a dignified exit after the argument.”

Examples of dignified by meaning

adjectiveHaving an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.

  • a dignified silence
  • She made a dignified exit after the argument.
  • The old man carried himself in a dignified manner.

More sentences with dignified

  • The Freedonian president maintained an attitude of dignified silence.From the entry Freedonian
  • No more dignified ship than the Queen Victoria flies the house-flag of any British line.2012, John Dickson Carr, The Blind Barber, →ISBN. From the entry house-flag
  • Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.2000, Laurence L. Bongie, Sade: A Biographical Essay, page 212. From the entry self-exile
  • Efforts to prove that this must be so are sometimes dignified by the name "anthropic principle."1997 Virginia Trimble - Cosmology: Where in the $&#** - Beam Line: Fall 1997. From the entry anthropic principle
  • The Satan of the mystery plays was a Trickster, but a dignified one.1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48…. From the entry orthodoxy
  • Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified.1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists. From the entry type
  • In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 126. From the entry repose
  • A double file of camels with sumptuous housings moved with dignified and unhasty tread after the litters.1904, Elizabeth Miller, chapter 45, in The Yoke, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 590. From the entry unhasty
  • Beholding his waddlesome approach out of the tail of her eye, the white animal would whinny a dignified and conservative welcome.2021, Irvin S. Cobb, Old Judge Priest. From the entry waddlesome
  • He writhes over her for a minute or two as she sits sphinxlike, dignified, head straight in the air.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry sphinxlike
  • This must be the 'squee' emotion I have heard so much about." "That is the most dignified squee I've ever seen."2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4371: Held In Reserve. From the entry squee
  • Everybody calls me RL.” “But, baby, RosaLee is so dignified.2007, Evelyn Palfrey, Dangerous Dilemmas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry RosaLee
  • They would have named him something dignified: Ethan, or Tristram.2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry Ethan
  • No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries.1977, Lyle W. Dorsett, The Queen City: A History of Denver. From the entry offbeat
  • A Briton said it reminded him of Brighton, where the Conservative party likes to convene in dignified raffishness.1964 August 21, “News Analysis; Atlantic City: Yesteryear; Convention Site Bears Faded Witness To a Period of Less Urgent Worries”, in The…. From the entry snacketeria
  • Then, too, a record of failures—particularly if it is a dignified and well-authenticated record—deters a young man from trying.1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 5, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC. From the entry fools rush in where angels fear to tread
  • Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha, which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry bertha
  • The ape-man wheeled about and followed the other into the ill-lit alley, which custom had dignified with the title of thoroughfare.1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Kidnapped”, in The Beasts of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March…. From the entry wheel about
  • Whether in Idaho or Tennessee or Oregon, hospitals across the United States are holding honor walks as dignified ways to honor each patient’s final contribution.2019, Tim Lahey, “Rituals of Honor in Hospital Hallways”, in The New York Times. From the entry honor walk
  • In other words, the PLP could unite behind an experienced figure who would take them to a dignified defeat but would save the furniture.2016 March 9, John McTernan, “Jeremy Corbyn's days are numbered if MPs stand firm”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 04 Dec 2016. From the entry save the furniture
  • Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor.2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN…. From the entry femcee
  • Maazel, for his part, gave a focused, dignified reading, and forbore from striking his repertory of conductorial poses until the score’s final page.2009 June 26, Allan Kozinn, “For His Finale, Maazel Musters Mahler’s Army”, in New York Times. From the entry conductorial
  • Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco. From the entry djellaba
  • Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises.1965, Arnold M. Ludwig, The importance of lying, page 120. From the entry aeolism
  • They are frequently sturdy, silent, careful, and as dignified as wealthy aunts, who, by the way, are also with as little reason made ridiculous in some books and plays.1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, new and enlarged edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, →OCLC, part…. From the entry malapropism
  • Sinatratics, as they’ve been called, are very eloquent about Frank, and thirteen-year-old Irene persuaded the dignified welfare worker in charge to take her to the theater to hear Frank.1944 February 12, Earl Wilson, “The Voice”, in Edward Maher, editor, Liberty, volume 21, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Liberty Magazine, Inc.…. From the entry Sinatratic
  • Well, I took a seat for a shine, and for two hours I sat there as full as a tick, and as dignified as a judge on the bench.1904, Andy Adams, chapter 5, in A Texas Matchmaker. From the entry full as a tick
  • Crabbe caught the eye of the oboist, an ancient man with dignified moustaches, and mimed that they were going round to the front, to watch the real thing, the shadows.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 555. From the entry moustache

Meaning of dignified

  1. adjective Having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.

Full definition of dignified

Questions about dignified in a sentence

How do you use dignified in a sentence?
Dignified is used as an adjective. For example: “She made a dignified exit after the argument.”
What is a short sentence with dignified?
“a dignified silence”
What does dignified mean?
Dignified means having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dignified (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use dignified in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/dignified. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.