Example sentences for: esteem

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

  • Five of the articles reprinted here are from VERBATIM, and that speaks for the high esteem I have of Bob's writing.

  • In the floor you’ll find the tomb of an Irish colonel, Hugh Beatty, a soldier of fortune who commanded the Lagos regiment of the Portuguese army in the late 18th century, and who must have been held in very high esteem to have been awarded such a prestigious final resting place.

  • The Protestant Ames takes an equally hard line: "The unjust revealing a secret hath in it oftentimes the pernicious violations of trust, friendship, and honesty," and is therefore "not only in the common esteem of men, but in the Scripture also, reckoned amongst the most odious sins."

  • Athens’ good fortune was that the Romans held Greek culture in such high esteem.

  • United Airlines, on the other hand--the old name the company threw in the trash--was in the top 15 percent in awareness and the top 10 percent in esteem.


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