Sample sentences for PREEMINENT

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Definition

outstanding or surpassing others in status, ability, or possession of a notable characteristic

I think of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as the world's most preeminent orchestra.

preeminent = surpassing all others

preeminent = most respected

preeminent = above all others

To remain a preeminent military power, a nation must be a preeminent economic power.

preeminent = leading

preeminent = leading

The destination of the Thrush must be now preeminently interesting.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

preeminently = above all else

Scrubbing clothes on a washboard until her knuckles bled—that was the preeminent memory of Erma's childhood.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

preeminent = above all others

I and my year—not "my generation" for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase—I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that. [a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan]
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

preeminently = in a manner that surpassed others

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scattershot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzsche, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards, the latter a deeply troubled writer and psychiatrist who, before putting an end to his life with a cyanide capsule in 1958, had been one of the preeminent British rock climbers of the day.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

preeminent = outstanding

It was preeminently the smell of the human body after it had been used to the limit, such a smell as has meaning and poignance for any athlete, just as it has for any lover.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

preeminently = above all else

Will not you engage to attend with your eyes steadily fixed on him the whole time—as I shall do—not to lose a word; or only looking off just to note down any sentence preeminently beautiful?
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

preeminently = in a manner that surpasses others in status, ability, or possession of a notable characteristic

He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

preeminent = surpassing others

I suspect that AIDS might not be Nature's preeminent display of power.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
My one regret at this time is that I have not given Him the preeminence in my life while I had the opportunity to work for Him.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Aunt Bertha, Nathan, the rabbi, the cellar, Leo, the beads-all swooped upon him, warred for preeminence in his brain.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Even Josie Pye attained a certain preeminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen's.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
William Morse," a "friend of my dad's" and a "preeminent scholar of deviant sexuality in adolescents," be the junior class's speaker.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
No, replied the Little Giant, but "he is preeminently a man of the atmosphere that surrounds him."
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
Rémy's association with Sir Leigh Teabing—the preeminent Grail historian on earth—was going to bring Rémy everything he had ever dreamed of in life.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Dick started to cite its preeminence in the Revolutionary War, but this quickly led to a staggering amount of new material.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

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