Example sentences for: venerable

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

  • There's nothing earthshaking about those pieces, falling as they do into the walking-around-and-peering or flight-of-whimsy tendencies of that venerable rubric.

  • 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).

  • In all this, Fieldcrest builds on a venerable tradition.

  • My second example is the book discussion group I belong to at Washington's Cosmos Club (a venerable gentlemen's club, which now admits women as well).

  • The nearby venerable Babington’s Tea Rooms are a relic of the days when Romans called the piazza the “English ghetto. ”


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