Example sentences for: dignity

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

  • Alfre Woodard displays "sinewy intelligence and grace" (John Leonard, New York ) and "unfailing dignity" (John O'Connor, the New York Times ) in the role of a black nurse who recruits black men for a government research project about syphilis.

  • 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.

  • "It is doing all it can to attain an honorable peace which safeguards rights, dignity, and sovereignty.

  • Her appearance was crucial in restoring dignity and humanity to a conquered people.

  • Yesterday the Journal and today again the Times had front-page pieces on how utterly stupid and pathetic and evil and beneath the dignity of any halfway civilized human being (OK, so they didn't necessarily use those exact words) the whole "managed" health-care system is.


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