How to Use hauteur in a Sentence

hauteur

noun
  • Putting him and his wife and his children inside my world was the worst hauteur.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • His hauteur could be endearing or off-putting.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • But there was something about her, a bemused hauteur or suppressed hilarity -- plus that flame of hair.
    — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Often, though, the band drops the hauteur to reveal a surprising kind of kookiness.
    — Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Anna, her hauteur hardening like a protective shell, is aghast.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Cats are not thought to be such selfless creatures, what with their hauteur and froideur and general aura of disregard.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • England’s secretary of state for the American colonies has a hint of hauteur about him, but also a sense of doubt.
    — Lynne Cheney, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Beneath the chilly hauteur of Levy's Elsa lies a world of fear, sadness and confusion.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Rapp’s vibe in person, though, is warm and ironic, a far cry from Queen Bee Regina’s ice-cold hauteur.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Red-glass lanterns on the facade hint at happy hanky-panky, and the warm welcome at reception is the first clue that this hotel has ditched the hauteur.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness — a holdover, maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • At the more affluent end of the spectrum, a prostitute can communicate a chilly hauteur.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Despite this hauteur—or perhaps because of it—many of us cannot resist bringing these regal creatures into our homes, litter boxes and all.
    — Ádám Miklósi, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • Despite this hauteur—or perhaps because of it—many of us cannot resist bringing these regal creatures into our homes, litter boxes and all.
    — Julia Calderone, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • Andrés announces, with Wildean hauteur, when his friends mock his horrible boyfriend’s workout Instas.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • As young Charlotte, the actress balances the confidence and hauteur of a headstrong young woman with the quiet yearning of a child who has been forced to grow up too fast.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Ted is a cartoon creep with an Oxbridge hauteur, but Theo’s shortcomings may be too subtly rendered for a play that cries out for more definition.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Or of Cordelia, played by Stampley with regal hauteur but little of the love and tenderness Lear’s youngest daughter feels.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • Desperate and greedy for information, Norma over-enunciates, her words taut with sarcasm and hauteur.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • To one side, Louis Garrel, the brooding, dark-eyed poster boy of cinematic hauteur, was vaping in thoughtful solitude.
    — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • It’s pushed along by his stout acoustic guitar strumming and David Rea’s sleek fingerpicking accents, which reinforce the lyric’s hauteur.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Which designer would be chosen to dress our generation’s exemplar striver, to translate his hauteur and his anguish to silhouettes?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Rosamund Pike, playing the spirit of loving filthy lucre over life itself, elevates a standard villain through the high timing of her theatrical hauteur.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The Academy Award-winning actress, known for her fierce talent and daunting hauteur, boasts a career spanning 60 years.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 16 July 2024
  • Her best quality is her remarkable work ethic; her worst is a five-way tie between crankiness, pettiness, self-indulgence, hauteur and, of course, hackery.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 28 May 2021
  • Her best quality is her remarkable work ethic; her worst is a five-way tie between crankiness, pettiness, self-indulgence, hauteur and, of course, hackery.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 12 May 2021
  • Jagger is, in fact, distracted by a solo career; the other band members aren’t happy about that, or about his growing hauteur after almost two decades of managing the band’s affairs.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
    — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017

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