Sample Sentences forprominentgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
prominent as in: a prominent politician
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She is a prominent member of our community.
prominent = well-known and respected
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The committee has many prominent members, so its findings will be taken seriously.prominent = well-known and important
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She has a prominent role in the negotiations.prominent = important
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The Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families. (source)prominent = well-known or important
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Next, Mother, who held a prominent position at the Department of Justice, talked about her feelings. (source)prominent = important
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A sword was prominently displayed before a suit of golden armor.† (source)
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There, at a prominent notch called the Keyhole, Walt decided to turn around. (source)prominent = well-known
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The artwork that I'll display most prominently on Mount Olympus?† (source)
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As the county went by us, Jem gave Dill the histories and general attitudes of the more prominent figures: Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket; Miss Emily Davis dipped snuff in private; Mr. Byron Waller could play the violin; Mr. Jake Slade was cutting his third set of teeth. (source)
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Saeed's father went each day to the home of a cousin who was like an elder brother to Saeed's father and his surviving siblings, and there he sat with the old men and old women and drank tea and coffee and discussed the past, and they all knew Saeed's mother well and had stories to relate in which she featured prominently, and while Saeed's father was with them he felt not that his wife was alive, for the magnitude of her death impressed itself upon him again with every morning, but rather that he could share some small measure of her company.† (source)
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Father was born in Frankfurt am Main to very wealthy parents: Michael Frank owned a bank and became a millionaire, and Alice Stern's parents were prominent and well-to-do. (source)prominent = well-known or important
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Immediately after the election the two of them strutted around with their red armbands prominently displayed, giving orders to the rest of the class.† (source)
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They lived on El Rancho de la Trinidad (which I changed to El Rancho de las Rosas) and her uncles did hold prominent positions in the community. (source)prominent = important
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Taurus and Libra individuals figure prominently.† (source)
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prominent as in: a prominent place on the shelf
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By law, the notice must be placed in a prominent location.
prominent = conspicuous (easily noticed)
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The most prominent feature of the new building is its height.prominent = easily noticed
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After ten minutes or so, what was most prominent in the cellar was a kind of nonmovement. (source)
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By that time, however, stories about the dead hiker, including excerpts from his diary, had been given prominent play in newspapers across the country. (source)
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Not only has it been scrubbed clean, the nails are filed in perfect ovals, the scars from the burns are less prominent. (source)prominent = easily noticed
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The Gold-Bug sat prominently on top of her notebook. (source)prominently = conspicuously (in a way that is easily noticed)
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But my most prominent feature—my worst—was my teeth. (source)prominent = highly noticeable
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Doaker's room is prominent and opens onto the kitchen. (source)prominent = central
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Prominent in the middle of the group were Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. (source)Prominent = easily noticed
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prominent as in: a prominent jaw
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The skull resembles that of modern humans, but was smaller with a sloped forehead, larger teeth, and a prominent jaw.
prominent = protruding (sticking out)
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Who is your favorite actress with prominent ears?prominent = sticking out
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My plan was to follow this catwalk to a prominent rock prow in the center of the wall and thereby execute an end run around the ugly, avalanche-swept lower half of the face. (source)
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My hip bones and ribs are more prominent than I remember them being since those awful months after my father's death. (source)prominent = protruding (sticking out)
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And one of them, a bold-looking girl with large dark eyes, a prominent chin, and long black hair pushed her way through the door. (source)prominent = protruding (sticking out)
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The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. (source)prominently = in a manner that sticks out
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He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. (source)prominent = sticking out
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The red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently. (source)prominently = in a manner that sticks out
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He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips. (source)prominent = protruding (sticking out and easily noticed)
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His prominent rear ballooned out from both sides of his chair, tussocks of flesh swelling from between the armrests and seat cushion. (source)prominent = protruding (sticking out)
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His full face, rather young-looking, with its prominent chin, wore a gracious and majestic expression of imperial welcome. (source)
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The gentleman spoken of was a gentleman with a very unpromising squint, and a prominent chin, who had a tall white hat on with a narrow flat brim, and whose close-fitting drab trousers seemed to button all the way up outside his legs from his boots to his hips. (source)
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He had the same open expression, the same prominent nose, the same full lower lip.† (source)
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She has a prominent nose that seems just right and slightly off kilter at the same time.† (source)
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