Example sentences for: honorary

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

  • A couple of weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it would award an honorary Oscar to the director Elia Kazan.

  • In today's Wall Street Journal , Gerald Seib writes the same story about McCain that we've seen for months: He's unpredictable, angers Republicans with his campaign finance and tobacco stands (making him an honorary Democrat with that sort of lunacy), but is fiercely pro-life.

  • A President with honorary (rather than political) powers is chosen by an Electoral Assembly of parliamentary and regional representatives.

  • In Italy, La Stampa dwelt on the coincidence of Salman Rushdie's arrival in the country, on the same day as Khatami, to receive an honorary degree from the University of Turin.

  • Just across rue St-Jacques stands the exquisite 13th- to 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic church of St-Séverin, in which Dante is said to have prayed and Saint-Saëns asked to be made honorary organist.


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