Example sentences for: esteem

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

  • Yates has held the esteem and affection of the people he has represented for half a century by thinking about their good in a more elevated way.

  • Y staff trained in conflict resolution and adolescent programs guide the youth through a process of skill and esteem building.

  • 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.

  • Military service offers many advantages--self-improvement, adventure, travel, patriotism, the esteem of one's countrymen--as the services tout.

  • 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."


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