Example sentences for: prestige

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

  • The Blair government has invested its prestige in the dome because it sees it as an opportunity to convey this new social and economic reality.

  • If a young economist should show even a simulacrum of old-fashioned star quality, he is likely to be deluged with offers, but for the most part the race for academic prestige has become a game of musical chairs in which everyone still wants the same old enfants terribles , and there are not enough of them to go around.

  • Cardinal John O'Connor of New York used his Palm Sunday sermon to declare the episode "legally and doctrinally wrong" and added this grace note: "Some undoubtedly believe that if one has enough prestige or money, anything goes."

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Fish will become dean of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a respected commuter campus making a bid for greater prestige and attention.

  • A major development of national significance has provided much prestige to the IUPUI Geography Department.


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