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Example sentences for "preeminently"

Lexicographically close words:
predynastic; pree; preehaps; preeminence; preeminent; preempted; preemption; preen; preened; preening
  1. As to the real phænomena of intermixture, they can only be ascertained by a great increase of our information for the parts in question; since they are preeminently irregular in their distribution, e.

  2. Our knowledge of them is preeminently scanty; still such vocabularies as are known exhibit miscellaneous affinities with the languages of other tribes of South America in general.

  3. Preeminently vegetable, the coco-nut, the taro, the banana.

  4. In Chili we find special notice of a preeminently light-haired and blue-eyed population--the Boroanos.

  5. No portion of the Turk division has ever passed for one of the preeminently intellectual sections of mankind.

  6. New Mexico, is preeminently the river of the Cumanch tribes; tribes of which the exact east and west direction is not ascertained, but of which the north and south area is one of the longest in America.

  7. Above all, the criticism applicable to all negative statements is preeminently applicable here.

  8. The impulse corresponding to the religious incest symbols is preeminently to be conceived in the trend toward introversion and rebirth which will be treated of later.

  9. To the rich poetical genius it is revealed preeminently in the activity of his imagination; to the philosophical understanding as the scheme of a harmonious system.

  10. They are preeminently novels of character and more than any novelist of the day the view of the world embodied in them is that of the intellect.

  11. Adam Bede" is preeminently a book of belief, written not so much in ink as in red blood, and in that psychic fluid that means the author's spiritual nature.

  12. He is to Cicero perurbanus, preeminently endowed with that subtle something in spirit and expression which marks at once the polished man of the world.

  13. Horace, while he had every opportunity for learning all that books and the schools could teach him, was, as we have already seen, preeminently a student of real life, having been taught by his father to study men as they actually were.

  14. Though preeminently papal and clerical, yet it was, also, eminently intellectual and classical.

  15. The eyes must be clear, pure, limpid like sunshine, preeminently blue or of that indefinite changing color which we note in some species of birds.

  16. Amalasuntha, one of the daughters of Theodoric, shines preeminently in history as the worthy daughter of the greatest German king of the creative epoch.

  17. She writes with a moral ascetic view and preeminently for her sisters in the cloisters.

  18. Albany, which was preeminently Dutch and held the Reformed Church in reverence, was also aristocratic in sympathy and resented the rule of Leisler as the representative of the common people.

  19. Such a nature was preeminently that of Jesus.

  20. Of these, Francesca Carrara, and Ethel Churchill, are unquestionably the best works, the latter preeminently so.

  21. In science he was not inferior to his continental compeers, and his music is preeminently stately and solid.

  22. Contact with any of them would be perilous--with the inhabitants of the cities peculiarly, and of the Canaanitish cities preeminently so.

  23. Nay more, he is preeminently a great citizen when he does this and because he does it.

  24. He was preeminently the Lord's apostle to the Gentiles; and this opening of the doors to others than Jews was the main contention between himself and Stephen.

  25. It is preeminently the book of the conscience.

  26. The Christian life is preeminently a life of service.

  27. The destination of the Thrush must be now preeminently interesting.

  28. 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?

  29. Though belonging preeminently in style to the glorious thirteenth century, her building continued almost uninterruptedly throughout the fourteenth.

  30. All countries have their laws and gods: the Yavanas are wise, and preeminently brave; the Mlechchas observe their own ritual, but the Madrakas are worthless.

  31. They are preeminently cattle-lifters and sheep-stealers, and their encampments may be recognised by the numbers of bullocks and cows about them.

  32. It is true that slanderers were even coarser-minded and less restrained among the Romans of those days than they are in our own time; and among them Cicero was as preeminently conscienceless as he was clever.

  33. A matron most preeminently worthy to dance to the trumpet at the indecent Floral games.

  34. The bluntly practical disposition of the Romans reveals itself even in their attitude toward that phase of human life which preeminently furnished scope for romance.

  35. Yet why may we not be allowed to believe that in those early times there was one hero so strong and masterful that he came to be known as preeminently the "Man of Rome"?

  36. If this is Agrippina's composition, there is certainly no lack of force in it and she was preeminently an adept in the use of innuendo.

  37. We are accustomed to make a distinction between works of nature and works of art, but in a sense which, all will readily understand, this is preeminently both.

  38. But whatever the world might say, however kind, nay flattering, its verdict, this preeminently sensible woman did not suffer herself to be deluded by success.

  39. There is something preeminently open, natural, full fronting our disbelief in this manifestation.

  40. It meets it preeminently by that power of arrangement which I have endeavored, at great length and with great pains, to define accurately in the chapter on Imagination associative in the second volume.

  41. After the Restoration the colonial agents became preeminently interested in secular affairs, in political privileges, and commercial advantages.

  42. From the adoption of the Saybrook Platform, the Connecticut churches were for many years preeminently Presbyterian in character.

  43. New Haven became a centre of literary life, and the cultivation of literature took its place beside that of the classics, broadening the preeminently ministerial groove of the Yale curriculum.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preeminently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acutely; amply; conspicuously; eminently; emphatically; especially; exceedingly; exceptionally; exquisitely; extraordinarily; famously; generously; impressively; incomparably; incredibly; intensely; magically; magnanimously; magnificently; markedly; marvelously; most; nobly; notably; particularly; peculiarly; pointedly; preeminently; profusely; prominently; remarkably; singularly; splendidly; surprisingly; uncommonly; unusually; wonderfully