Example sentences for: dignity

How can you use “dignity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is, of course, beneath my dignity to respond to this personally motivated attack (except to note that if you think Stephen Jay Gould actually deigned to read my puny book, you must be getting him mixed up with someone whose time is less precious).

  • Offered the post of assistant secretary of state for European affairs, a job he considered beneath his dignity, he took it for the sake of directing American diplomatic efforts in the Balkans.

  • More far-reaching than both of these original meanings, however, is the individualist interpretation: All human beings are of equal dignity.

  • For those of us working to create a world in which the genders are treated equally in the workplace, take equal responsibility in matters of sex, and treat each other socially with equal respect and dignity, the only practical approach is to start doing it.

  • Reporters initially preserved an air of dignity by couching their questions in terms of perjury, but they soon tossed aside that fig leaf and pounced on the subject everyone wanted to know about: Did Clinton and Lewinsky have sex?


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