Example sentences for: reputation

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

  • Incidentally, the name “Devil’s Hole” derives from the sound of the seawater entering and leaving the hole, rather than from the fearsome reputation of some of its inhabitants.

  • Nixon's reputation for double-dealing came from his fear of confrontation, and Watergate stemmed from his tendency to give wildly impractical orders that he never really wanted implemented.

  • Is the answer to lie, lie, lie in order to keep peace in the family, shelter the self-esteem of his wife, and protect the reputation of the lady in question?

  • According to the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, to harm someone this way is a mortal sin--even if the allegations are true--since "defamation is not a distortion of the truth but the destruction of a reputation."

  • Only Billy has a reputation as a straight arrow.


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