Example sentences for: luminaries

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

  • The luminaries behind the American Prospect offer a new journal for the liberal libidinal imagination.

  • Dutifully following instructions, I find myself in a GOP Web site endowed with the collected wisdom of such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.

  • The principal cemetery of Montmartre, where luminaries of the arts such as the composers Berlioz and Offenbach lie buried, may seem a world away, but it’s only a short walk west from the Moulin Rouge to the entrance (west past the Moulin Rouge, then right at avenue Rachel).

  • The seals are victims not of research or of subsistence hunting, says Hunt , but of an unsubstantiated claim that their penises increase human potency ("totally inexcusable" in "what is supposed to be an enlightened age," actor William Shatner, one of a growing cast of luminaries who have signed on to the IFAW cause, has been quoted as saying).

  • These top-dollar portraits of art-world luminaries look good enough to eat.


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