REPUTATION in a Sentence

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For REPUTATION, below is one of 217 sentences:
If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPUTATION
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reputation
 n.  state of being held in high esteem; general estimation in which a person is held by the public
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there'd be trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There, I'll be saying no more tonight, for I'm going to see this fine Captain Butler who makes so light of me daughter's reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I am not a soldier and I have no desire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Then, having accepted his gifts, she could not summon courage enough to tell him his reputation made it improper for him to call on three lone women who had no male protector.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  With such a reputation, it was strange that he had never so much as kissed the hand of an unmarried girl since he first appeared in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  He's got such a bad reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  He had risen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthless fighter was growing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Will couldn't have noticed Mammy's face when Rhett Butler's name was mentioned and, besides, Will didn't know about Rhett's money or his foul reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  All she wanted was the reputation for possessing these qualities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  It had the worst reputation of any spot in or near Atlanta, for here lived in filth outcast negroes, black prostitutes and a scattering of poor whites of the lowest order.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  People always find it out and it ruins the reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  I'm not urging instant matrimony because of your reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
17  He gained a reputation as being a staunch defender/supporter of civil rights.
18  I think she'll be head of this company in five year's time - I'd stake my reputation on it.
19  She brought several persons of good credit to witness to her reputation.
20  Sweden has a reputation for advanced and stylish design.
21  The company enjoys a world-wide reputation for quality of design.
22  He'd already begun to establish quite a reputation as a journalist.
23  She had the combined talents of toughness, intellect, experience and unsullied reputation.
24  He gradually garnered a reputation as a financial expert.
25  He earned a reputation as an expert on tax law.
26  His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.
27  This restaurant has a fine reputation.
28  Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
29  Success in the talks will reinforce his reputation as an international statesman.
30  He tried to use it to damage our international reputation.