Example sentences for: hauteur

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

  • In Le Monde columnist Pierre Georges said, with Gallic hauteur, that it was "extraordinary" that the greatest democracy in the world should permit itself the luxury (via Paula Jones) of "a universal media course on the president's anatomy."

  • Its vertical, domed shape has a certain hauteur, not to mention a geometric purity then rare in housewares.

  • It was harder to forgo the beautiful ones--elegant, blond Clare, for instance, with her hard-won hauteur and Lilly Daché hats and petal-white skin.

  • ("That is why," the Economist observed a few years ago, in its trademark tone of languorous hauteur, "when a Russian steel factory reduces output, it is an achievement, not a pity."

  • In the case of Restoration Hardware and Trader Joe's, the dissent (hence the commodification) is a bit more subtle and has more to do with the harnessing of postgrad hauteur mingled with a longing for simpler times.


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