Example sentences for: eminence

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

  • They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.

  • One relatively unfamiliar hill in Rome, Monte Testaccio , is a sizable, artificial eminence near the Tiber south of the city, rising a hundred feet above the surrounding level.

  • His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.

  • Back in town, the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower (Gulou) has been restored to its eminence on a hill in the very center of Nanjing.

  • He would like to be considered a wit, perhaps the Samuel Johnson of American letters, but he will never achieve such eminence so long as he churns out gags, assembly-line fashion.


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