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How to use esteemed in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective

Esteemed means respected, having respect or admiration from others. Example: “The esteemed reverend will enlighten us with a sermon on reconciliation.”

Examples of esteemed by meaning

adjectiveRespected, having respect or admiration from others.

  • my esteemed colleague

More sentences with esteemed

  • The esteemed reverend will enlighten us with a sermon on reconciliation.From the entry reverend
  • Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.From the entry sound
  • I seconded the proposal of my esteemed colleague.From the entry seconded
  • First, he was no more esteemed in Springfield than scrubby-dutch landlords were in St.2010, Steve B. Yates, Morkan’s Quarry, Moon City Press. From the entry misconstruance
  • Even one of the esteemed teachers of Oyster River High School has become a WOWer.2008 December 9, Max Snelling, “Addicts Anonymous”, in Mouth of the River, page 19. From the entry WOWer
  • Reviewers esteemed the book highly and pronounced the youthful urinater an authentic Voice of Protest.1996, R[obert] Emmett Tyrell, Jr., “The Making of the Clinton Cabal”, in Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, Washington, D.C.: Regnery…. From the entry urinator
  • When they began using computers, their classification changed from computress to the more esteemed title of programmer.1984, M. D. Fagen, G. E. Schindler, editors, A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System […] , volume 5, Bell Telephone…. From the entry computress
  • Fifty thousand pounds our esteemed father-in-law was proposing to settle upon that half-baked, nitwitted little slypuss.1942 February, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in The Body in the Library; republished in Starring Miss Marple […], New York, N.Y.: Dodd…. From the entry half-baked
  • Reduced to its core, originalism promises that judges can ride a constitutional wayback machine, taking orders from the esteemed Founders.2014, Michael Waldman, The Second Amendment: A Biography, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry wayback machine
  • I will be despised, and will be esteemed not.2000, Robert J. Walker, “Houston, We Have a Problem”, in The Plan of Salvation, Brushton, N.Y.: TEACH Services, Inc., →ISBN, page 22. From the entry grieves
  • And as I write I am told of a recipe showing how, in the Wortlore of old, the firm white petals were esteemed of use.2012, Henry A. Bright, A Year in a Lancashire Garden - Page 6. From the entry wortlore
  • Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her.2004, “Jane Franklin: Not People of the First Respectability”, in Tim Flannery, editor, The Birth of Melbourne, page 96. From the entry Apple Isle
  • Jill Van Cleave, author of Icing the Cake, is a celebrated chef and foodstylist and a member of the esteemed Les Dames d’Escoffier.1991, Jill Van Cleave, Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies, Chicago, Ill.: Contemporary Books, →ISBN, back cover. From the entry foodstylist
  • The hapuka is a very large deep-water species of groper, highly esteemed in New Zealand as a fish with a rich flavour.1963, Florence Keene, O Te Raki: Maori Legends of the North, page 36. From the entry hapuka
  • Those that were less esteemed put themselves under the protection of the more famous hetæræ, or carried on the profession on their own account.1918, Julius Rosenbaum, The American Journal of Urology and Sexology, volume XIV, The Urologic Publishing Association, page 475. From the entry hetæræ
  • “But let us return to our first head,” as my esteemed colleague, who was burned alive some centuries ago, the protopope Avvakum, used to say.1906 [1867], Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, translation of Дым (Dym) by Ivan Turgenev. From the entry protopope
  • It was my hope that the project could be completed with the aid of two of her most esteemed fellow Nahuatlatos and Sahagún scholars, Arthur Anderson and Charles Dibble.1997, H. B. Nicholson, Primeros Memoriales, page 12. From the entry nahuatlato
  • It imparts a sweetness to the breath, is a valuable medicine in all nervous complaints, and is esteemed as a prolonger of life and an exciter of venery.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 173. From the entry prolonger
  • Almonds, parched watermelon seeds—esteemed as a great delicacy—spareribs covered with a mixture of molasses sugar, fried fish, chicken livers and century eggs were put on the table at once.1912 November 15, “Chop suey hoax exposed”, in The Mixer & Server, volume 21, number 11, page 35. From the entry century egg
  • It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability.1958, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society. From the entry conventional wisdom

Meaning of esteemed

  1. adjective Respected, having respect or admiration from others.

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Questions about esteemed in a sentence

How do you use esteemed in a sentence?
Esteemed is used as an adjective. For example: “The esteemed reverend will enlighten us with a sermon on reconciliation.”
What is a short sentence with esteemed?
“my esteemed colleague”
What does esteemed mean?
Esteemed means respected, having respect or admiration from others.

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