Example sentences for: eminent

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

  • Greek gods are popular themes, followed by eminent human figures of Roman times.

  • It's an appealing image for a professoriate that has long been accused of being out of touch and moribund--the consummate schmoozer combined with the eminent scholar.

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

  • Early in this century, the eminent economist Alfred Marshall offered this advice to his colleagues: When confronted with an economic problem, first translate into mathematics, then solve the problem, then translate back into English and burn the mathematics.

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


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