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How to use greatness in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun

Greatness means the state, condition, or quality of being great. Example: “Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.”

Examples of greatness by meaning

nounThe state, condition, or quality of being great.

  • Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.
  • greatness of mind
  • I was glad Scott had come to the same happy conclusion as to this possible greatness, but I was also glad he was beginning to run out of his speech.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 147

More sentences with greatness

  • To walk the footsteps of greatness requires that you start at the bottom of a long stair.From the entry footstep
  • My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.From the entry touch
  • You're on a highway to greatness.From the entry highway
  • Greatness in its characterization, especially the duality of being a romantic and a realist.2023 October 27, Sam Guevara, “Sam’s Showtime Schedule”, in Samantha “Sam” Guevara, editor, The Innis Herald, volume 59, number 1…. From the entry cringeyness
  • Greatness in the chemistry, yet its cringeyness, between two people this tale follows.2023 October 27, Sam Guevara, “Sam’s Showtime Schedule”, in Samantha “Sam” Guevara, editor, The Innis Herald, volume 59, number 1…. From the entry cringeyness
  • Trump would finally unmask the cabal, punish its members for their crimes and restore America to greatness.2020 October 19, Kevin Roose, “What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?”, in New York Times. From the entry The Storm
  • DND just goes to show you that you don't need graphics to achieve greatness.2014, Rob Strangman, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, →ISBN, page 334. From the entry rogue-like
  • That said, the passage just looked at anticipates rather than participates in greatness.1989, Michael O'Neill, The human mind's imaginings: conflict and achievement in Shelley's poetry, Oxford University Press, USA. From the entry overwrite
  • He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness.1987, Garry Wills, Newsweek, volume 110, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1. From the entry warrant
  • Confucius had a lively faith in T’ien and that faith was the ultimate source of his greatness.1965, John C.H. Wu, “Confucius: The Man and His Ideas”, in Chinese Humanism and Christian Spirituality, Angelico Press, published 2017…. From the entry T'ien
  • "Jewmania” is for the primitive, paranoiac personality a nightmare besieging his would-be greatness.1946, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Aftermath of Peace: Psychological Essays, page 54. From the entry Jewmania
  • Xiism constitutes an ideology defined entirely by the metric of the Chinese struggle for greatness in the existing world.2021, Luke Cooper, Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy, Bristol University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61. From the entry Xiism
  • Thus, The Nail confirms the greatness of superheroics by having the greatest superhero of all explicitly repudiate nonviolence.2017, Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: New Edition with Full Color Illustrations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry superheroics
  • And for the first few songs, he was encouragingly, overcompensatingly manic, his good leg pumping, talking up the greatness in store.2015 July 16, Ben Ratliff, “Review: Foo Fighters Bring a Little of Everything to the Stage, Including a Broken Leg”, in New York Times. From the entry overcompensatingly
  • In lacrosse, the legacy of greatness belongs to No. 22.2014, Scott Pitoniak, “The Legend of 22”, in 100 Things Syracuse Fans should Know & Do before They Die, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books…. From the entry All-American
  • In fact, hate-watching is a byproduct of a spoiled culture, awash in choices and television that aspires to greatness.2013 February 24, Christopher Borrelli, “What does hate-watching mean?”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry hate-watching
  • Rather than such Hellenic greatness of soul, Proverbs emphasized humbleheartedness.2005, Bernhard Lang, International Review Of Biblical Studies 2003-2004, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry humbleheartedness
  • Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.1996, Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking, page 48. From the entry drumbeat
  • Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry plenitude
  • If we are encircled by the greatness of the past, we are also encircled by the handicap of our own sin.1972, William Barclay, “The Race and the Goal”, in The Letter to the Hebrews (The Daily Study Bible Series), rev. edition, Louisville…. From the entry pantechnicon
  • Thom Kerr, the photographer, really got the ball rolling and I had no idea what to expect of this shoot besides greatness.2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper. From the entry gag
  • Once its greatness — and its market potential — was understood, the insider art world opened the flood gates and here we are.2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry outsider art
  • From the infinite depths of his all-encompassing mind Brahma created Manasarovar, the Lake of the Mind, as a mirror of his greatness.1989, Russell Johnson, Kerry Moran, The Sacred Mountain of Tibet: On Pilgrimage to Kailas, Park Street Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL…. From the entry Manasarovar
  • The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.1983, Jan Knappert, Epic Poetry in Swahili and other African Languages, page 58. From the entry epic
  • The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.1973, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Part Three, Chapter 9, pp.202-3. From the entry grandiosity
  • But in those days, it was considered being born en-caul a sign that the baby was destined for greatness—or at the very least, would never drown.2020 April 9, Sigrid Kendall, “Thicker Than Water”, in My Many Lives: A Memoir, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN. From the entry en-caul
  • The acts of goodness, I call bonificative, bonifiable, and bonifying, while those of greatness are magnificative, magnifiable, and magnifying, and so on for the other aforesaid dignities.2010, Fiona Somerset, Nicholas Watson, The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, The Pennsylvania State University…. From the entry bonifiable
  • It is an art which topples greatness, undermines pretension and punishes pride by revealing the low in the pretendedly high, the filth in the pure, the folly in reason.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.148. From the entry satire
  • Greatness on the continent would be complemented by greatness at sea, with the Argentine Sea indicating Argentine's legitimate, natural maritime sphere of interest as a great power.1988, Michael a Morris, The Strait of Magellan, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry Argentine Sea
  • It is as though the poets and mystics were weaving a colorful brocade of words with the intention to please God and to show His greatness to the world.1976, Annemarie Schimmel, Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-Century Muslim India, page 126. From the entry brocade
  • However, if encompassment has nothing to do with greatness, it is puzzling that Bulbus uses the phrase 'that universal nature which embraces all things' rather than simply 'that universal nature'.2017, Yujin Nagasawa, Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism. From the entry encompassment
  • King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, republished by Eland, 2019; p. 94. From the entry attentive

Meaning of greatness

  1. noun The state, condition, or quality of being great.
  2. noun Pride; haughtiness.

Full definition of greatness

Questions about greatness in a sentence

How do you use greatness in a sentence?
Greatness is used as a noun. For example: “Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.”
What is a short sentence with greatness?
“greatness of mind”
What does greatness mean?
Greatness means the state, condition, or quality of being great.

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