EMINENCE in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for EMINENCE, such as:

1. We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
2. The students are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
3. He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
4. Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
5. Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMINENCE
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eminence
 n.  fame; high status importance owing to marked superiority; rise of ground; hill
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The spire of Bolney Minster, Rough Norton woods, and on an eminence rather to the left, Hogben's Folly, so called because.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
4  He did not turn aside to the cottage, but pushed on to an eminence, whence he could see over the whole quarter that had once been Eustacia's home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
5  His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
6  And yet the men of civil eminence, who came immediately behind the military escort, were better worth a thoughtful observer's eye.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
7  I am the umble instrument of umbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could have hoped to reach.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
8  Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
9  He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet bearing the inscription Ancient Barrier No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
10  He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
11  They had no realization of what her life had been before she reached her present safe eminence in her mansion on Peachtree Street.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
12  After descending an eminence to a low bottom, through which a swift stream glided, they suddenly came to a place where the party of Le Renard had made a halt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  de Villefort held a high position in the magistracy, and maintained his eminence like a Harlay or a Mole.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
14  I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person -- that being better suited to the still smaller fry -- but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
2  I honor endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
3  The two great commanders sat at together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
4  Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.
5  After his appointment to this eminent position, he seldom had time for his former friends.
6  New York's eminent domain statute is virtually capital punishment for property owners.
7  The students are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
8  We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.
9  I'm hovering in a makeshift kitchen, watching one of Italy's most eminent marine biologists gleefully playing chef.
10  This seems eminently sensible, and indeed studies indicate that this approach can work best for some people.