Example sentences for: pride

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

  • Where is the pride in that?

  • The interior is a model of only slightly tattered splendor, but the exquisite Palace Gardens are the pride of Queluz, with imaginative fountains, and armies of statues.

  • What's so hysterical about this piece of gritty city reporting, the kind of thing that makes true-blue newspaper types bluster with civic pride, is that on the very same day, the Wall Street Journal carries a puff piece about the development of the self-same waterfront: "In San Francisco, Great Views and a Ferry."

  • Sir Randolph Quirk put it succinctly when he wrote, “It would be ironic indeed if the millions of children in Germany, Japan, and China who are diligently learning the language of Shakespeare and Eliot took more care in their use of English and showed more pride in their achievement than those for whom it is the native tongue.”

  • To say that finding a genetic link to a "Founding Father" will bring forth a feeling of patriotic pride in alienated minorities is absurd.


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