Example sentences for: prestige

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

  • 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.

  • It's hard to believe that bohemian black is gone for good, because its prestige is so great.

  • Most groups go too far, partly because the obscurity of their jargon sets them apart from others, thereby increasing their prestige.

  • Condé Nast's magazines are all about glamour, wealth, prestige.

  • The substantive negotiations were conducted by others; the firm's apparent role (mostly in the person of partner George Mitchell but also through McPherson himself) was to lend prestige to the tobacco industry's side.


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