Example sentences for: eminent

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

  • As the eminent Puritan theologian William Ames wrote in Conscience and the Cases Thereof , "[H]e whose offence is hidden has ...

  • The eminent MIT professor, whose early academic work received widespread media attention, is far too generous a scholar to succumb to such pettiness.

  • Haldane, the eminent biologist who was then in his heyday as a Marxist intellectual, was provoked by the word miraculous in the title to flex his dialectic muscles at it in a lengthy review in The Rationalist Press Annual for 1943: as I remember, he dismissed it as a nefarious supernaturalist plot.

  • Local developer Eugene Pfeifer III, a vocal opponent of the library, owns a piece of property in the presidential park and promises to fight the city's attempt to take his property by eminent domain.

  • The result: eminent American academics have noted that, across the Atlantic, they 'read' Europe more and more with German eye-glasses."


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