ILLUSTRIOUS in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for ILLUSTRIOUS, such as:
1. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists.
2. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august.
3. All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
4. Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.
5. They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.
2. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august.
3. All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
4. Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.
5. They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.
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Meanings and Examples of ILLUSTRIOUS
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illustrious
a. widely known and esteemed
a. having or conferring glory
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
2 Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.
3 There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
4 The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, and the necessary base of her politics.
5 That which had been merely illustrious, had become august.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
6 There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Caesar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius.
7 There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
8 It is in this house, of two stories only, that an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years before.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
9 An illustrious person sends you; an illustrious person awaits you.
10 The aldermen did as they had done before, and preceded by their sergeants, advanced to receive their illustrious guest.
11 No doubt the host knew what illustrious visitor was expected, and had consequently sent intruders out of the way.
12 His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.
13 No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious.
14 They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.
15 Still, consider that although I may not be, strictly speaking, what is termed an illustrious match for you, I am, for many reasons, not altogether so much beneath your alliance.
Example Sentence:
1 All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.