Example sentences for: gravitas

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

  • They lament the passing of an alleged era when figures of towering prestige and gravitas would swoop in like superheroes when democracy had tied itself in one too many knots.

  • Meanwhile, on the USAT front Barbara Bush mounts a defense of George W.'s gravitas: "People don't know that he is a very smart history buff and that's what he reads."

  • Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.

  • Whenever someone testifies, gravitas follows.

  • Critics feel Wesley Snipes lacks the gravitas to replace Harrison Ford as a falsely accused man on the lam, though some claim that Tommy Lee Jones, as the U.S. marshal who chases him, saves the film.


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