Example sentences for: honor

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

  • The Hall for Cultivating Happiness (Yile Dian) served as the Empress Dowager’s private viewing box for performances in the adjacent three-story theater, which was built to honor her 60th birthday.

  • In the matter of Celsius versus centigrade , the point is not that they are “identical” (which is ambiguous for `very similar' and `the same thing'), but that they are the same thing: the scale formerly called centigrade was renamed in 1948 to honor Anders Celsius, the 18th-century Swedish astronomer who devised it.

  • Consequently, keeping the body fit for the task has been built into female basic training for four generations, despite new shifts in the direction of female ambition and the foundation of new codes of female honor.

  • Paul Simon and columnist Gail Collins separately advocating (he more seriously than she) rotating among small-population states the honor of being the first in the nation to weigh in on candidates.

  • "It's a great honor to have a building dedicated to justice and to the service of the community . . . named after me," said Reynoso, who is now a UC Davis Law School professor. "


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