How to Use eminent in a Sentence

eminent

adjective
  • Many eminent drag queens have brought their solo shows to the theater.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Cornel West is among the eminent thinkers and voices of our time.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • Then sixty-three years old, Howells was eminent enough for the job.
    — Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Here are four eminent voices from the oil and gas industry who weigh in on the subject.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Some sort of eminent scientist turns up in a single short scene shot in a basement.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Tables were laid out for wealthy donors and eminent guests from the worlds of politics and culture.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • Soleimani, the world’s pre-eminent sponsor of terrorism, is now dead.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Even some of the most eminent individuals have erred in this way.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Keep in mind Russia is the world’s pre-eminent Eurasian land power.
    — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Where did my eminent colleagues think this $10 million a year was going to come from?
    — Marcel Agüeros, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • Also, Freeney was never the pre-eminent pass-rusher of his era.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023
  • But that’s only the start of the state’s smash-’n’-grab approach to the use of eminent-domain power.
    — Walter Olson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Hopkins, 29, has emerged as one of the league's pre-eminent receivers in his eight-year career.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • Why are eminent scholars from abroad attracted to teach at the DA?
    — Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Still, Plath, perhaps our pre-eminent artist of the melancholy, offers a rare gesture of hope.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • For decades during the Cold War, the pre-eminent threats seemed to come from Europe.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In one case, the pre-eminent vaccine company Merck got on board.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Sanders and Shepp aren’t the only eminent jazzmen making vital statements this year.
    — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Ours was an eminent family, whose name, Usui, was known throughout the region.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Mueller will be remembered as an eminent public servant.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Once the governor signed off on this bill, the old Wild West concept of eminent domain would come back.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Aug. 2017
  • America, for Obama, was the pre-eminent world power and didn’t need to prove its strength every day.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Joel Whitburn, one of the pre-eminent chart historians of the last 50-plus years, has died.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 14 June 2022
  • Darwin's nemesis was the eminent physicist Lord Kelvin and the weapon used against him was the age of the Earth.
    — Mano Singham, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2021
  • One’s wedding is often a crown jewel of all their days—and the parents of the bride and groom are the most eminent, illustrious guests of all.
    — Alexandra Malmed, InStyle, 9 June 2026
  • Darwin's nemesis was the eminent physicist Lord Kelvin, and the weapon used against him was the age of the Earth.
    — Mano Singham, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The first episode starts out with a spoof about how Walsh descends from a long line of eminent justices, all obsessed with doling out the death penalty.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • All of which adds up to Paramount being the pre-eminent home to, and producers of, the world’s greatest content.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2022
  • That, according to the eminent Lawrence Gipson, was the colonists’ position—at first.
    — William Hogeland, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
  • This wise, gentle character had been inhabited and portrayed by such eminent people.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025

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