Example sentences for: honour

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

  • Consider the form we honour this evening: the tautology causes confusion by stating an absolute truth.

  • On American wedding invitations honor is often still spelled honour , some pretentious theatrical enterprises in the USA spell theater theatre , and in mustard ads on American television you won't hear filthy-rich senior citizens say, Hey, bud, you got any Grey Poupon?

  • The city was inaugurated with great ceremony in 330 and, in honour of the emperor, was renamed Constantinople.

  • He said, `Honour thy father.

  • The notion of entry, as described many times in these pages, includes (1) head-word,(2) inflected forms (which, in the sole case of the MW-III , includes regular inflections, which pumps up the entry count considerably), (3) changes in parts of speech, (4) embedded boldface entries (like idioms and phrases), (5) run-on forms (those that are added at the ends of entries to illustrate headwords with suffixes of transparent meaning added, e.g., national and nationally run on to nation and nationalization run on to nationalize , (6) spelling variants (like British honour, nationalise, nationalisation , etc.).


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