Example sentences for: eminent

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

  • And so I feel a bit sorry for Joseph Stiglitz, the eminent economist who chairs Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers.

  • "Administered by some of the most eminent men who contributed to its formation," Adams said, alluding to his own father, "..

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

  • In May, Chatterbox asked Vincent Scully, the eminent (now retired) Yale architecture historian, whether public buildings of the mid-to-late 20 th century were less durable than public buildings that predate the 20 th century.

  • 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.


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