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How to use eminent in a sentence

30 example sentences · adjective

Eminent means noteworthy, remarkable, great. Example: “His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.”

Examples of eminent by meaning

adjectiveNoteworthy, remarkable, great.

  • His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.

adjectiveDistinguished, important, noteworthy.

  • In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian.
  • Why did the eminent Italian writer Primo Levi die in the shocking way he did?1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Aug...
  • Are you game?” The question is posed by an eminent novelist of about 70, who has sat on a Manhattan park bench and struck up conversation with a young woman reading a book.2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian

More sentences with eminent

  • The city council used eminent domain to make me sell my store.From the entry eminent domain
  • Professor Jones is an eminent metaphysician; she has produced more than one hundred refereed publications concerning metaphysics.From the entry metaphysician
  • The County took his land by eminent domain.From the entry take
  • Weren't the opinions of eminent lawyers often written by their juniors, read over and signed?1922, John Galsworthy, Conscience, page 4. From the entry devil
  • Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.1914, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, The American Journal of Psychology, page 360. From the entry philiac
  • The locus classicus is contained in the judgment of the eminent American copyright judge Story J. in Emerson v.2003, “Fossil Inc. v Trimset Limited and Goodwill Watch Industrial Company Limited”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)…. From the entry locus classicus
  • Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 15. From the entry common noun
  • Joolby, the eminent authority on Greek numismatics?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry numismatics
  • We should not so much mind these eminent persons being ghouls, if only they were modest and apologetic ghouls.1926 February 13, G. K. Chesterton, editor, G.K.’s Weekly, volume 2, number 48, page 541. From the entry ghoul
  • What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75. From the entry latration
  • Percival Lowell, the eminent Martian astronomer, said in a recent interview in New York: "The Martian canals are not Panama canals.1910 September, H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 14, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Co., →OCLC, page…. From the entry martian
  • Sidney Lee, the eminent Shakespeareologist, lets Valentine down very gently.1904 May 19, “Spring Theatricals in London”, in Broadway Weekly, volume III, number LXVI, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Weekly Co., →OCLC, page…. From the entry Shakespeareologist
  • The reader will recall many a name eminent in the science of snobology and the art of snobography.1903, William Searle Hicks, Quis Separabit?. From the entry snobography
  • LeBron, this generation’s eminent GOAT contender, has long expressed his desire to play professional basketball with his son, and that’s almost guaranteed to happen.2022 December 19, Nicholas Quah, “Can There Be Nepotism in Sports? Just Look at the NBA.”, in Vulture. From the entry nepo
  • Three eminent mainstream British economists told MPs . . . that the government had struck the right balance between cuts and spending.2013 June 7, Phillip Inman, “9 reasons Keynesians aren't winning the argument”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 14 Sep 2017. From the entry on the mark
  • The home minister, Admiral Suetsugu, speechified grandly of a Japanese eminent domain beyond the seas, of a “moral purification drive” in the home islands.2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines, Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry speechify
  • A schnorer knocks on my door, holds out a letter signed by an eminent rabbi and asks me to contribute to his yeshivah in Jerusalem.2000, David Golinkin, “Investigating The Charities To Which We Contribute”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 51. From the entry schnorrer
  • David Mezz, an eminent otolaryngologist, explains in a recent medical journal report that too many of us have never mastered the fine art of sneezery.1965 August 2, “Gesundheit, Everybody”, in Leroy A. Simms, editor, The Huntsville Times, volume 56, number 133, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN…. From the entry sneezery
  • If you read the lives of eminent men you will find that quite half of them made their first acquaintance with drama from the gallery.1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited. From the entry nugatory
  • Dyboski, the most eminent of Polish Anglists, who was twice lent to us for long periods, was from the first a heart-to-heart colleague.1939, The Slavonic and East European Review, volume 18, page 72. From the entry Anglist
  • An eminent pianist and remarkable pedalist.1900, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, volume II, page 678. From the entry pedalist
  • She gave me the telephone number of a very eminent man in Blackrock Clinic, where there was no danger of me casting anyone as a wifty-wafty new ager.2011, Mary McEvoy, How the Light Gets In, Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN. From the entry wifty-wafty
  • But it is possible to find a chink in my armour, and this can be done by suddenly springing eminent loony-doctors on me in the guise of butlers.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV. From the entry sang froid
  • Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.1916 February 5, Anonymous, “Hort Flug Sez”, United States Tobacco Journal Volume 85, No.8, page 17. From the entry dog-nose
  • We are indebted to that eminent antiquarian, Mr Cosmo Innes, for much of the information we possess of that early period of Scottish history, the twelfth century.1911, Samuel Cowan, The Lord Chancellors of Scotland: From the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union, volume 1, W. & A. K.…. From the entry Lord Chancellor
  • The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism. From the entry aspective

Meaning of eminent

  1. adjective Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
  2. adjective Distinguished, important, noteworthy.
  3. adjective High, lofty.

Full definition of eminent

Questions about eminent in a sentence

How do you use eminent in a sentence?
Eminent is used as an adjective. For example: “His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.”
What is a short sentence with eminent?
“An eminent pianist and remarkable pedalist.”
What does eminent mean?
Eminent means noteworthy, remarkable, great.

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