Sample Sentences for
eminent
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    A century after Franklin's death, the eminent explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson pointed out that the English explorer had never taken the trouble to learn the survival skills practiced by the Indians and the Eskimos,  (source)
    eminent = admired
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    My supervisor, I learned, was the eminent Professor Jonathan Steinberg, a former vice-master of a Cambridge college, who was much celebrated for his writings on the Holocaust.  (source)
    eminent = respected and famous or important
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    He has tonight earned an eminent place in the roll of the benefactors of our town; and he is worthy of many imperishable songs.  (source)
    eminent = admired
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    They were surely older than her, but they behaved as if she were a visiting eminence.†  (source)
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    Thus it was with the men of rank, on whom their eminent position imposed the guardianship of the public morals.  (source)
    eminent = standing above others in reputation
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    We are eminently practical in these matters.  (source)
    eminently = perfectly
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    The purpling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light.†  (source)
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    Silence and thoughtfulness succeeded the gayety and conversation that had prevailed during the commencement of the ride, as clouds began to gather about the heavens, apparently collecting from every quarter, in quick motion, without the agency of a breath of air, While riding over one of the cleared eminencies that occurred in their route, the watchful eye of Judge Temple pointed out to his daughter the approach of a tempest.†  (source)
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    There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.†  (source)
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    She was a thoughtful, well-read young woman, with opinions on a variety of topics such as the responsibility that came with Britain's military power, the nature of commerce and industry under a monarchy, how to care for the poor and neglected, the sensationalist tendencies of the Fleet Street papers, and the convolutions of the legal system as exposed by the eminent author Charles Dickens.  (source)
    eminent = admired
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    This always pleased the eminently practical friend.  (source)
    eminently = with high standing
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    This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.†  (source)
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    He sent his sons ahead of him shouting and waving ceremonially preserved animal parts to announce his eminence.†  (source)
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