Example sentences for: revered

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

  • He likens the revered editor to the character Prince Myshkin in The Idiot : innocent and vulnerable, someone who must be protected.

  • Calling him a man "who came to be revered by kings and vagabonds alike," the Star said: "Madiba, we wish you health, wealth, happiness and, most of all, we wish you love.

  • King Theseus, the legendary ruler who slew the minotaur in the Cretan labyrinth, was revered by Athenians for bringing Attica’s scattered and independent villages under the rule of the Acropolis.

  • Revered author and anti-Communist Arthur Koestler repeatedly abused women and committed at least one rape, alleges a new British biography serialized in the Daily Telegraph . The book, by Southampton University Professor David Cesarani, claims that in 1951 Koestler violently assaulted Jill Craigie, the wife of former Labor Party leader Michael Foot.

  • Moynihan is the state's most senior and revered elected official.


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