REPUTATION in a Sentence

Learn REPUTATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
217 example sentences for REPUTATION, such as:
1. He's got such a bad reputation.
2. His reputation was blemished by that article.
3. He built up a reputation as a tough businessman.
4. She has a very good reputation among her fellows.
5. Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation.
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 Meanings and Examples of REPUTATION
reputation
 n.  notoriety for some particular characteristic
 n.  the general estimation that the public has for a person
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there'd be trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There, I'll be saying no more tonight, for I'm going to see this fine Captain Butler who makes so light of me daughter's reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I am not a soldier and I have no desire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Then, having accepted his gifts, she could not summon courage enough to tell him his reputation made it improper for him to call on three lone women who had no male protector.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  With such a reputation, it was strange that he had never so much as kissed the hand of an unmarried girl since he first appeared in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  He's got such a bad reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  He had risen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthless fighter was growing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Will couldn't have noticed Mammy's face when Rhett Butler's name was mentioned and, besides, Will didn't know about Rhett's money or his foul reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  All she wanted was the reputation for possessing these qualities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  It had the worst reputation of any spot in or near Atlanta, for here lived in filth outcast negroes, black prostitutes and a scattering of poor whites of the lowest order.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  People always find it out and it ruins the reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  I'm not urging instant matrimony because of your reputation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
2  Although he is known to only a few, his reputation among them is very great.
3  She has a very good reputation among her fellows.
4  His reputation lends a certain validity to the approach that it might not deserve.
5  His reputation was blemished by that article.
6  If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.
7  He built up a reputation as a tough businessman.
8  He is a man with a reputation for being tough and unafraid of unpopular decisions.
9  His approach had won him a reputation as a tough manager.
10  He had shot three people dead earning himself a reputation as a tough guy.
11  To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
12  The reputation of the navigator is under assault from historical revisionists.
13  He has a well-deserved reputation as a reliable worker.
14  Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
15  We must build on our reputation to expand the business.