Example sentences for: stature

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

  • And Duvall's Sonny is both in our face and yet tantalizingly out of reach, infantile and of amazing stature.

  • The short-term betting says Gingrich has quelled the Republican mutiny against him and bought himself time to regain his stature as a policy leader.

  • Among the several types of doubles in English, a rather large group ends both parts with the diminutive suffix - y or - ie . The group seems also to contain two similar sub-groups that produce opposite effects: those that diminish size and express endearment or amusement and those that diminish stature or worth and express disapproval or contempt.

  • Likewise, in a CNN poll, 57 percent express a negative opinion of him as a person (only 35 percent express a positive opinion), 59 percent say he has diminished the presidency's stature, and 54 percent say he would "commit adultery if he knew he could get away with it."

  • But the ultimate confirmation of Chihuly's stature is the lottery hometown artists stage to mock Seattle's star-struck provincialism and celebrity fawning: The winner gets to "smash a Chihuly."


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