Example sentences for: eminence

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

  • 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.

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

  • Blurbs from Brzenzinski (effusive) and Kissinger (guarded) reinforce the air of eminence.

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

  • 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.


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