Example sentences for: honorific

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

  • Though the Shopping Avenger offers this piece of advice: When writing to "consumer care specialists," or whatever they're being called today, do not use the honorific "asshole" by way of greeting.

  • (When I gave an honorific lecture at one prominent department, students there told me that their macroeconomics course did not even mention money until the last two weeks, and never so much as suggested that monetary policy might have anything to do with business cycles.)

  • "It is mistaken and misguided to synthesize the distinct symbols of our two traditions," said Dr. Christopher Leighton, executive director of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies and, I'm guessing, not a medical doctor, but a guy who appreciates an honorific.

  • Pinochet," she said--choosing his honorific with the same care ABC News uses when calling its own pet war criminal "Dr."

  • It would seem that this honorific more properly belongs to him.


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