dignitary

How To Use dignitary In A Sentence

• As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
• Manx, the millionnaire, was an acquaintance of the new Judge and titled dignitary, Sir Cramborne Wathin, and she visited Lady Wathin, at whose table the report in the journals of the Nile-boat party was mentioned. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• If he is a dignitary he wears the epigonation and (in Russia) the mitre also. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
• One day, after having completed five surgeries, I picked up my wife and drove to a formal dinner being held in Manhattan in honor of a titled dignitary. Manifesting Michelangelo
• Chase: “Standing up and interrupting the speech of a visiting dignitary is not the place nor the time.” Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor
• Palace when the promoter, Bob Arum, introduced him to a visiting dignitary from the South Korean Boxing Federation – Lieutenant General Heroes or Villains?
• The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust.
• The eldest of the trio, a paunched and jowled dignitary whose beard and hair were obviously touched up in a none-too-successful effort to belie his more than three score years, glared in distaste at the scene of action unfolding while the cachinnations of the general audience grew in volume.
• Besides this diplomatical dignitary and his wife, we had two American gentlemen of more than average intelligence, who related wonderful things of the 'spiritual manifestations' (so called), incontestable things, inexplicable things. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• doctorand" has performed the whole duty of the Bolognese student, gives him permission to enter for the first or Private Examination, and he again takes the oath of obedience to that dignitary. Life in the Medieval University