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The committee has many prominent members, so its findings will be taken seriously.

She has a prominent role in the negotiations.

Next, Mother, who held a prominent position at the Department of Justice, talked about her feelings.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

There, at a prominent notch called the Keyhole, Walt decided to turn around.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

I draw the line at any animal that features prominently in Aesop's fables.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

The Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

A Hindu wedding with Canada prominently on the edges.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

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) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

The banner must be prominently displayed, and have no more than two guards.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

A prominent and influential man, reportedly a descendant of the first shogun, Tokugawa was touring camps for the Japanese Red Cross.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

I began to notice that the items of clothing had one thing in common: they all had the designer's name plastered prominently on them.†  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

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) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

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) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

The most prominent feature of the new building is its height.

After ten minutes or so, what was most prominent in the cellar was a kind of nonmovement.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Not only has it been scrubbed clean, the nails are filed in perfect ovals, the scars from the burns are less prominent.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

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) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The Gold-Bug sat prominently on top of her notebook.  (source) Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, Book Scavenger, 2015

But my most prominent feature—my worst—was my teeth.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

Doaker's room is prominent and opens onto the kitchen.  (source) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson, 1990

Prominent in the middle of the group were Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Who is your favorite actress with prominent ears?

My hip bones and ribs are more prominent than I remember them being since those awful months after my father's death.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

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) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

As the boy passed, Harry caught a glimpse of a prominent curved nose and thick black eyebrows.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

His prominent rear ballooned out from both sides of his chair, tussocks of flesh swelling from between the armrests and seat cushion.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

The red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

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) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

He had prominent face bones and a streak of stickylooking brown hair falling across his forehead.  (source) Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People, 1955

He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

He had sketched this new pose, when all at once he recalled the face of a shopkeeper of whom he had bought cigars, a vigorous face with a prominent chin, and he sketched this very face, this chin on to the figure of the man.  (source) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

She was a formidable style of lady with spectacles, a prominent nose, and a loud voice, who had the effect of wanting a great deal of room.  (source) Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853

He was older than the men in Eddie's troop, a lifetime military man with a lanky swagger and a prominent chin that gave him a resemblance to a movie actor of the day.†  (source) Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, 2003