How to Use august in a Sentence

august

adjective
  • The family claims an august lineage.
  • We visited their august mansion and expansive grounds.
  • How can anyone devote space in this august newspaper to the filthy habit of licking?
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • He would be appalled at what that august institution has since become.
    — WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • The Senate is already a smaller place, a shadow of its former august self.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
  • As such Miklovic brings an august presence, officious and ready to ensure the integrity of the brand.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • Come for the novel's august reputation, but stay for the prose—this is Fitzgerald at his lyrical best.
    — Adrienne Westenfeld, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2014
  • One Twenty-fifth, in Harlem—and couldn’t get access to an august publication like that.
    — The New Yorker, 10 June 2019
  • What next, aside from a tweet from Trump hailing the NFL for its wise and august management?
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • While an august way to showcase towering portions of beef, when the cart comes rumbling toward your table, most of the sides also come with it.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And the seemingly august Austrian institute turned out to be a language school.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
  • The august, multipeaked range lies in North Korea and has been impossible to visit for most of the past seven decades.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • His tone is temperate, but the words echo through the State Capitol’s Assembly chamber, the august backdrop for his speech.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The latest startup to come out of the august school is Poshling, a private sale site for luxury childrenswear that launches this Friday.
    — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2011
  • Robert Montgomery came from an august line of lawyers and founded the investment firm now known as Janney Montgomery Scott.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Those philosophers are better considered the forebears of the more august tradition of criticizing stuff without doing it first.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The Supreme Court—formerly an august, quiet part of the constitution—has crashed the main stage of British politics.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That august body is due to elect its new President next week, and to everyone’s surprise the campaign has become genuinely competitive.
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2017
  • But Leslie West staked a claim as one of the best guitarists in Woodstock's august ranks, raising Mountain's stock exponentially.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The arts ecosphere is, however, a large one, ranging from august New York institutions to local children’s after-school programs.
    — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 30 May 2017
  • The Senate session was not like the typical ones that get public attention where all 33 senators sit in their august chamber and debate one another.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Trump had bought the august old club an hour’s drive down the west coast from Glasgow in 2014, intending to remodel the club’s facilities in his signature style.
    — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2017
  • After my windshield was shattered in a Princeton hailstorm, I was led to a shop in a less august town, where, with the coordination of surgeons, young men my age replaced the curving glass.
    — Mark Helprin, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Harrison wants readers to imagine themselves in such august company; her adorable illustrations depict all of these figures as a little black girl, an everygirl, in a variety of costumes and backdrops.
    — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • And plenty of readers are still here, too, even in a brutal publishing climate that has forced august women’s titles like Glamour, Seventeen, Self, and Redbook to retreat from print for the web.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2019
  • And if Mack is determined to use a nine or 10-man rotation against the august competition of the Atlantic Coast Conference, better to see how his players function in stressful situations than when limited to the last minutes of lopsided games.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2019

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