PROFILE in a Sentence

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Beckham's cultural clout, combined with his valuable (if diminished) presence on the soccer field, raised the profile of MLS.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROFILE
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profile
 n.  outline; biographical sketch
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  After the imperial profile disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his cross.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
2  For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
3  It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
4  So far in this book the Thenardiers have been viewed only in profile; the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and considering it under all its aspects.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
5  A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean recognized old Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
6  These two words furnish a tolerably good profile of her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
7  No trait of the universal face is lacking in the profile of Paris.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
8  The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOU...
9  The head was held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
10  The profile had a rose in its mouth.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
11  Just as she was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS
12  The neighboring street lantern illuminated her profile and her attitude.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
13  His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
14  It would suit Carreen's delicate profile and wishy-washy expression perfectly, but Scarlett felt that it made her look like a schoolgirl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  We first build up a detailed profile of our customers and their requirements.
2  He presented his best profile to the camera.
3  The data will enable us to construct a profile of the firm's customers.
4  In his first years as chairman he was instrumental in raising the company's wider profile.
5  The magazine published a short profile of the new mayor.
6  The newspaper publishes a profile of a leading sportsman every week.
7  The BBC are working on a profile of the British nuclear industry.
8  The painting shows her in profile.
9  The consultant who suggested using spamming to raise the company's profile has been fired.
10  Every week in the books section of the paper they profile a different author.
11  On Wednesday morning, a higher profile US army presence was on the streets outside the hotels where most foreigners stay.
12  Potential recruits will be encouraged to use an online tool to test their motivational profile and will be enticed by statistics claiming more than one thousand different jobs in the army across one hundred and forty different trades.
13  The front (obverse) of the dime pictures a left-facing profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only four-term President of the United States of America.
14  Beckham's cultural clout, combined with his valuable (if diminished) presence on the soccer field, raised the profile of MLS.
15  China's de facto first lady, famed military singer Peng Liyuan, seems to have gone out of her way to keep a low profile since her husband Xi Jinping was anointed as the Communist Party's top leader at its 18th National Congress last November.