Example sentences for: greatness

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

  • The paper said that Russia's past greatness and her continuing possession of 5,000 nuclear warheads explains why American, German, and French diplomats continue to pay court to her, but added: "If it is wise not to marginalize the Russians, it is also perhaps imprudent to take their bragging seriously, thus encouraging them to be even more intransigent--and more demanding when they ask for loans."

  • "[H]ere even the most lumpish spectator must recognize greatness," says New York 's John Simon.

  • The AFI compilation reflects more than just technological change and the shifting power to confer "greatness," however.

  • "It is the Kennedy greatness to call us to a higher moral purpose, and the Kennedy tragedy that none of the family could fulfil that promise."

  • "This was Golden Age stuff--a reminder that not all greatness lies in the past, that not all the best performances are contained on crackly old recordings adorned with sepia photographs," says the Weekly Standard 's Jay Nordlinger.


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