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Example sentences for: venerable

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To be sure, the whole idea of a list of the biggest givers originated with Ted Turner, vice chairman of Time Warner, which publishes Fortune . And of course it's a variant on the venerable Fortune 500 list of biggest corporations (via the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, the Animal Husbandry Quarterly 375 list of most prolific rodents, and so on).
Graceful, elegant, and refurbished for the new century, the venerable Kahala artfully mixes Hawaiian, Asian, and international touches.
Then he shuttered the venerable Baltimore Evening Sun and New York Newsday , the much admired, much unread, much unprofitable downtown sister to Newsday . He also fired 175 members of the Times editorial staff.
The town’s most venerable edifice is the 12th-century Romanesque basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
Two weeks ago, Sara Lee Corp., the venerable manufacturer of baked goods, Jimmy Dean sausages, Hanes T-shirts, Kiwi shoe polish, Brylcreem and, yes, the Wonderbra, announced that it would be divesting itself of its manufacturing operations to become a company whose main business was the marketing of its brands.