Sample Sentences for
august
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august as in:  august stature

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    In view of his august new neighbors, Joe's friends anticipated that life at his new home might perforce be a bit more modulated than it had been at 16 East Jones Street.  (source)
    august = greatly admired
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    On the other hand, our expedition, running appalling risks, performing prodigies of superhuman endurance, achieving immortal renown, commemorated in august cathedral sermons and by public statues, yet reaching the Pole only to find our terrible journey superfluous, and leaving our best men dead on the ice.  (source)
    august = majestic
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    This august building was hardly difficult for me to locate, its looming spire being ever-visible wherever one goes in Salisbury.  (source)
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    …pledge of honour; though in many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in…  (source)
    august = majestic
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    Her Augustness Izanami, last of all, came out herself.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Drawing the ten-grasp saber that was augustly girded on him, he fled, brandishing this behind him.†  (source)
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    For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic.  (source)
    august = greatly admired
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    Then Uzume spoke, saying: "We rejoice and are glad because there is a deity more illustrious than Thine Augustness."†  (source)
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    … May I know what this august organization is called?  (source)
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    Nevertheless, as I am overpowered by the honor of the entry here of Thine Augustness, my lovely elder brother, I wish to return.†  (source)
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    Americans were then a novelty in South Africa, and I was curious to meet a representative of so august a legal organization.  (source)
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    In the very first degree, Masons celebrated "the most august gift ever offered to God …. the submission of Abraham to the volitions of the supreme being by proffering Isaac, his firstborn …."  (source)
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    No. Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    "August, you've been wanting to learn to play the drums," Mom said, trying to get me to look at her.  (source)
    August = a name
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    In Montana, you know, the first snow usually comes in August.  (source)
    August = the month that falls between July and September
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    "Ours been goin' since the end of August."  (source)
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    The unpaid ticket appeared in Walt and Billie's mailbox at the end of August.  (source)
    August = the month that falls between July and September
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    At the end of August and summer, they found one pfennig on the ground.  (source)
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    Since the surgery in August 1985, Maranda Francisco has had her one wish.  (source)
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    On August 11, 1945, rioting broke out when a gentile boy claimed that Jews were trying to kill him.  (source)
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    And then, on the afternoon of August 21, the sky suddenly turned black.  (source)
    August = the month between July and September
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    Word of the August 4 party spread widely, even to neighboring counties.  (source)
    August = the month that falls between July and September
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    When the Italian family visited in August, right before I left.  (source)
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    Nick's mom read part of it out loud during dinner one night in August.  (source)
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    They only had twelve days before Gaea planned to wake, on August 1, the ancient Feast of Hope.  (source)
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    xiv 1945 August 14: Japan surrenders, ending World War II.  (source)
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