Example sentences for: lofty

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

  • One would like to believe this is because executives have realized that hostile takeovers only magnify the immense problems any company faces in trying to assimilate the operations of another, but it almost certainly has as much to do with the lofty prices that are being offered for companies these days.

  • In the lofty Gothic interior, Donatello’s seven sculptures at the high altar include a stoical Crucifixion and large bronze reliefs narrating St. Anthony’s miracles.

  • The island’s repeated suffering was duly celebrated in the popular heroic Songs of Dighenis (adapted from their medieval origins for the modern struggle), Pandelis Prevelakis’ grim novel, The Cretan, and the lofty writings of Níkos Kazantzákis.

  • How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?

  • The Afghan governors of the Sind and the Punjab, who were hoping for more autonomy than they had under the lofty sultan Ibrahim Lodi in Delhi, therefore called on Babur the Tiger, King of Kabul.


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