eminent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with eminent, each labelled with its topic.

• The most eminent mapmaker of that century worked from one small shop, and princes waited months for a finished chart.

  History

• The hospital recruited an eminent cardiologist whose name alone drew referrals from three neighboring counties within a year.

  Medicine

• The committee invited an eminent constitutional scholar to testify, and even the opposing members deferred to the answers.

  Politics

• An eminent philosopher visited the small college, and the lecture hall filled an hour before she arrived.

  Philosophy

• The library was designed by an eminent architect, and the town now guards it against even a new coat of paint.

  Architecture

• An eminent cellist agreed to teach the summer course, and applications tripled within a week of the announcement.

  Music

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More Literary words

• pedantic
• benign
• whimsical
• corrosive
• copious
• compendium
• antithetical
• apocryphal
• precept
• ascetic
• halcyon
• anathema