Example sentences for: eminence

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

  • High above the town, the ruins of a 17th-century convent, Nossa Senhora do Desterro, loom like a ghostly gray eminence.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Eszterhas is the Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd, the eminence greasy of Hollywood.


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