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Example sentences for "revered"

Lexicographically close words:
reverberating; reverberation; reverberations; reverberatory; revere; reverence; reverenced; reverences; reverencing; reverend
  1. As you go up, so you come down" is another revered fallacy.

  2. Strictly between ourselves, the said revered employer is an annointed fraud.

  3. He invited O'Connell to become an inmate of his hermitage at Queen's Square Place, and O'Connell responded warmly to the letters of his 'revered master.

  4. That is in the spirit of Bentham; and yet Bentham complains that Horne Tooke's disciple, Burdett, believed in the common law, and revered the authority of Coke.

  5. Within three or four years the plan was taken up everywhere, and the worthy Raikes, whose newspaper had spread the news, found himself revered as a great pioneer of philanthropy.

  6. I fear my revered aunt is again up to mischief.

  7. Nobody can figure out why the son didn't destroy them, when he was creating such a swell fiction character out of his revered parent.

  8. I had access to the papers left by my own revered grandfather, Judge Cecilius Van Nicht, 2d, son and namesake of the founder of our line, locally.

  9. Major figures that any spunk and any sense the Morehead boy's got is a heritage from his revered ancestors, and that he'll just naturally have to make good because he had 'em for his ancestors.

  10. This much of it: Your fathers before you were gallant Southern gentlemen--the bearers of honoured names; names revered in this state and in the Southern armies.

  11. Politicians, on the contrary, have revered the dead wood, have sought to shore the old timbers for their own purposes.

  12. He had never been employed by a syndicate to draw up papers to avoid these mandates; he revered them, as he revered the Law, which he spelled with a capital.

  13. He forgot time and place,--for the while even this man whom he revered above all men.

  14. Though the village loved and revered Cynthia, Coniston as a whole did not rejoice in that reform.

  15. And how was it, if my father so revered the Republican Party that he would not suffer it to be mentioned slightingly in his presence, that he had refused contemptuously to be its mayor?

  16. He was the servant of the Church, and the Church loved and revered him.

  17. All the students revered him, but the best of the class appreciated him most.

  18. It was his privilege to minister to the latest hours of his revered friend, and it is to him a labour of love to prepare for the press the posthumous story of his life.

  19. During the day large numbers visited the sorrowing house, and gazed for the last time on the features of the revered dead.

  20. And far beyond his own country his character was revered and his loss deplored.

  21. There are perhaps few circumstances better calculated to impress awe on the youthful mind than the contemplation of those features in death which have been respected and revered while living.

  22. Uncle is so beloved and revered by his Belgian subjects, that it must be a great compensation for all his extreme trouble.

  23. Another Christian sect was busy, when I first visited Nazareth, in consecrating a round table of rock, which seemed to be newly hewn, but which was to be revered as the Mensa Christi, where Jesus had once sat with His disciples.

  24. Heloise from the good and revered abbot, Peter the Venerable.

  25. On these grounds, revered Sir, I trust you will forbid him the use of the fishing-rod.

  26. In her heart, however, she almost revered the man who had the strength and patience to take up this heavy and hopeless burden, and go on in the path of duty without a word.

  27. He revered the "method and secret of Jesus"; he did all honour to His "mildness and sweet reasonableness.

  28. Still she remembered and still she revered the loved and moving heart of Oliver Goldsmith.

  29. But tell me, what do you hope for from our revered Prefect?

  30. Dear and revered brother," replied Don Silverio, "I came hither with no such illusions.

  31. Naylor took his reverence's hand and his very forehead reddened with pride and pleasure at so warm a word of praise from the revered mouth.

  32. It is not a sublime quality, but Crawley thought it was, and revered it with pious, affectionate awe.

  33. In the writings of the revered Epictetus he found severe condemnation of the Christians as fanatics.

  34. The love of country is the greatest and noblest passion the Master of Life has placed in the heart of man--my father had a revered name among his people.

  35. He had completely adopted Indian customs, and, through his wisdom, had so thoroughly acquired the esteem and respect of the Kenha nation, that he was counted among the most revered sachems.

  36. The Bible, which they once revered as their guide to everlasting life, was thrown aside; and though Mr. Beaufoy could not forget that he had been a religious man, yet he wished others to believe that now he was a more happy one.

  37. From that hour I revered him as my spiritual father in Christ; and an intimacy soon after commenced, which continued unbroken and undisturbed till death.

  38. There were a few Dissenters who could not conscientiously worship within the walls of the Establishment, even though they revered the character of the new Rector at Aston, and approved of his ministry.

  39. Atossa was held, and Aeschylus, in his Persians, mentions her in her old age, as the much-revered and noble matron.

  40. The next morning the old man betook himself, accompanied by his son Gyges, to the town of Barene, which belonged to him, and lived there many years as a father to his subjects, revered by Darius and praised by all his contemporaries.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admired; adored; beloved; creditable; darling; dear; eminent; esteemed; estimable; favorite; grand; holy; honorable; honored; loved; meritorious; noble; patriarchal; pet; popular; precious; prestigious; prized; reputable; respectable; respected; revered; reverend; sacred; treasured; valued; venerable; worshipful; worthy