Example sentences for: repute

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

  • Almost eight years ago, an American of great repute ducked a much-publicized rape rap without answering the accusation directly--and the press quickly abandoned the story.

  • As debate about the Holocaust unfolded, Bettelheim's initial renown as a heroic witness gave way to cloudier repute as a blamer of victims.

  • Other opera theaters of high repute include the Chang’an Grand Theater (7 Jianguomenwai Dajie) and the Grand View Garden Theater (12 Nancaiyun Jie).

  • Prominent phallus signs often indicate a house of ill repute, with an arrow pointing upstairs to where the action was, but sometimes they were just a shopkeeper’s good luck sign.

  • Maggs returns from New South Wales, where he is now a citizen of good repute and considerable wealth, to England, where he is still a wanted man, to find Phipps, whose foppish lifestyle he has long subsidized.


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