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Sentence Examples Do we know if secreted about his smalls he has a pair of boxer shorts in either the ancient or red tartan of his venerable clanspersons? This year marks the centennial of the introduction of the venerable variety which was unveiled in England in 1899 by hybridizer John Kendall. The police are also rediscovering the benefits of some of our more venerable instruments. The first was a fine gold Tissot, bequeathed to me by my Uncle Harold, along with a venerable pair of tan brogues. The venerable brown-bag lunch of sandwich, chips, cookies or fruit is as much a part of the American workplace as file cabinets and paper clips. The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough. I wait to see whether an even more venerable Caledonian diver will now come forward. It was a wonderful afternoon, all of us upstarts, edgy and feisty, garnering the imprimatur of the venerable professor. The thought of making money at the expense of these venerable institutions was hugely tempting. They don't have the venerable institutions and structures of the two big parties. But when that venerable team melted into the sunset, normal service was resumed. Perhaps the most venerable and prestigious general scientific journal in the world is Nature. Sendmail is one of the most venerable internet software packages still in widespread use. He was also acutely aware of being part a long and venerable exegetical tradition. And instead of sitting around the hearth reminiscing about our venerable ancestors, I usually end up praying by myself upstairs. There is also a long and venerable family tradition of building and constructing. We are honoured by being entrusted with the stewardship of this venerable company. He was a man who was a wise as a venerable oak to some and as nutty as a fruitcake to others. So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation. In the season's third major, the most venerable of golf's grand slam events, the game's major players are giving chase. Show More Sentences The building is a fine example of a Victorian venerable property, built in 1881 as a novitiate for the Sisters of Charity. Not long ago the Decalogue was a venerable standard of morality acknowledged by all. A few years back he went to Boston's venerable white-shoe law firm, Palmer and Dodge. Most shippers storing bottles upright recork their most venerable vintages, say, once every 20 years. In a spirit of festive spookery, I've been having a nose around the venerable story of the Campden Wonder. In accepting the position last June, he took on the leadership of a venerable pressure group with 57,000 members. It boasts fine restaurants, immaculate hotels and glitzy bars amidst its colonial villas and venerable pagodas. The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade. The Bloor, Toronto's venerable rep cinema, was packed for opening night film, Lolo's Child, by hometown director Romeo Candido. So, for the sake of this venerable pageant, let's hope the hopefuls display gratitude and pulchritude, rather than crassitude and attitude. This was put to use every autumn to power the large and venerable threshing machine, with its elevator and shaking, riddling sieves. When new gamers foray onto the net, I guess they still drift over to the venerable newsgroup. One venerable conjecture was that it began as a contemptuous reference to papal edicts known as bulls. Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers! By then, the venerable Ron Newman had given way to former U.S. national team coach Bob Gansler, but the Wizards woes continued. The hugely expensive film bombed so badly that one of Hollywood's most venerable companies, United Artists, was destroyed. What price is our venerable former Prime Minister prepared to have us pay to assuage the agony of his political tabanca? When calling on the Gurukkal, don't expect to meet a venerable sage with wrinkles to testify the years of experience he had in life. The unit has only ever operated one type of manned aircraft and that is the venerable Hawker Hunter. Lee Petty, the venerable patriarch, died on April 5 at age 86 of complications from a stomach aneurysm. Show More Sentences The venerable toy firm today issued interim figures that would please even the most Scrooge-like of investors. Now over 80 years old, she remains a Hollywood fashion plate and venerable legend. The first stage is where a person is declared a Servant of God, the next is where the Church declares a person venerable. For example, the venerable Everett Ferguson writes on ordination and the authority of the congregation in the early church. Leading the charge against Graham was none other than Reinhold Niebuhr, the venerable professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Division technique...penetrated nearly all 17th century English instrumental forms, including the venerable polyphonic fancy. Not that Alliance Trust, the venerable investment trust company, minds keeping its head below the parapet. He offends progressives by minimizing the importance of venerable social villains such as poverty. Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation. Last week, a venerable Sevilian was found complaining that she saw no reason to give up the peseta and accept the Deutschmark. Welcome to the newest twist in that venerable fashion institution known as the trunk show. The venerable abbot is himself a traitor, while Fan Dabei, the drunken beggar, turns out to be a warrior with a mission. Rather than impose preconceived plans on a venerable company with a distinct culture, he's going to listen first. Nearly all the department stores dumped their venerable typefaces for blocky san-serif fonts. In fact, Eminem seems constitutionally incapable of partaking in hip-hop's most venerable traditions. Parallel universes are a venerable tradition in science fiction and fantasy. All of these are venerable human institutions that we recently decided to change. Creel had a venerable upright piano against the wall facing the gas fire, and huge speakers in the alcoves on either side of the chimney breast. This last factor will weigh particularly heavily with Egypt's Mubarak, now the venerable elder statesman of the Arab world. There is no notion of San Francisco's tumultuous and venerable gay history. Show More Sentences Now that fear of the mob has ascended to the most venerable circle of criticism. Even Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com devoted time to cataloguing praise for the venerable Cramer. Japan's venerable old sport of sumo wrestling is a pretty macho endeavor. Some are playing the electronic version of scrabble, one of the most venerable games around. Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced. Hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The Romanesque signaled venerable ancientness and might well have been combined with more up-to-date Italianate features in the formation of a retroactive antique style. The lunch trade had slowed to a gaggle of cackling tourists at the venerable Peppermill restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. It was a venerable and respected venue with a proud history that Arthur had taken possession of in a bid to bring something new to London's theatreland. On the very first episode of that venerable program, Jock Ewing gave his son, J.R., a tart-tongued lesson about tact and subtlety. Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form. At one time it was unchurched altogether, then restored to a certain status, and again Cromwell degraded the venerable pile to the level of a stable. Manhattanites are concerned that a decade of Bloombergian rent increases now threatens their venerable dining scene. The venerable Disneyland Hotel has transformed much of its outdoor space into a never-never land with a pirate ship, a mermaid lagoon, and tropical landscaping. The venerable A-level celebrates its 54th birthday this year. An attendant holds you while you plant a quick one on the venerable stone. John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end. It's now the Electric Fetus, a venerable head shop and record store. The oblique back view of the cheval mirror in Boucher's picture evokes a convention with a long and venerable history in painter's self-portraits. Walking up from College Street towards the gargoyled doors of University College, one is entitled to feel that this is indeed a venerable institution of higher learning. Show More Sentences Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias dominate the spring show of flowers. The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring. The moated ramparts, the embattled towers, and the trophied halls, are magnificent and venerable, but useless. There is no subgenre more venerable than the romantic comedy. Hobbes' hard primitivism may have been as venerable as the tradition of soft primitivism, but his use of it was new. And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints. The Origines also spoke of how not only Rome, but the other Italian towns were venerable, and that the Romans were indeed superior to the Greeks. This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme. A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water. The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature. In 321, he legislated that the venerable Sunday should be a day of rest for all citizens. The provenance of the Code appealed to scholars who saw in the Holy Roman Empire a revival of venerable precedents from the classical heritage. Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds. The Byzantine Empire considered Constantine its founder and the Holy Roman Empire reckoned him among the venerable figures of its tradition. In 321, he legislated that the venerable day of the sun should be a day of rest for all citizens. We salute a venerable lineage of strong women, big hair, and drama. He compared the venerable facility to The Palestra in Philadelphia, where the crowd also is right on top of the action. Even the venerable cytoxicity test, which has been a staple for at least 20 years, is undergoing changes. Airborne pollution from nearby factories assaults the venerable marble statuary and mausolea. A more simplistic example of self-correcting forces is the venerable law of supply and demand. Show More Sentences Iran is a demographically young country and a culturally venerable one. The venerable Sachems now returned to the ballroom, where they tripped the light fantastic toe until the hour far. This vividly illustrated science fiction graphic novel puts you into the cockpit of the venerable Soyuz spacecraft as it lifts off on an odyssey of discovery and adventure. Some universities were initially resistant to this change, considering it a displacement of a venerable tradition for the pure sake of globalization. Much of the venerable gallery's ethos is predicted here, from the tone of amused overripeness, to the accent on instantaneity and life as cinematic. When the venerable rollerskate was reincarnated as shock-resistant polyethylene boots holding one row of fast-spinning, resilient plastic wheels, skating was reborn as well. The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land. What's unique perhaps about Africa is our particular practice of gerontocracy, a venerable tradition that can nevertheless threaten to silence the voice of the young. It is characteristic of Carter that he often presented his biggest, rangiest inventions in the venerable genres of the concerto and the string quartet. Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage. Paul the Deacon then referred to him as venerable consistently. Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily, And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton, And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution? Teachers of grammar and writing often rely heavily on traditional analyses, and it may be the case that FANBOYS has gained credibility through a long and venerable history. Particularly, since Arad's venerable, highly respected Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Lipsker was also a Chabad hasid, this development seemed eminently sensible. The effect is that of seeing colourful songbirds, flying insouciantly around a massive and venerable building on a day of shifting light and shadow. Despite his relatively venerable age of 55, his son, John, Earl of Carrick, grew impatient and assumed the reins of government as Lord Lieutenant. Examples from Classical Literature To which, after some Perswasion to the contrary, the venerable beldam waited on her. The venerable Persian gazed at her for an instant, and then clasped her to his bosom. You all know their venerable names and how reverentially we have looked up to them. Billy Bumps raised his head, shook his venerable beard, and blatted at the cobbler. This venerable ancestor was, I have been told, a process server in one of the poorest parishes of the Rouergue. The venerable Orthoceras and the goniatite linger on through the epoch and into the first period of the succeeding era. He chuckled all through the harnessing of Daniel, the venerable white horse. His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle. Of these Shumir had many, even more venerable for their age and holiness than those of Accad. Sir Marmaduke enters with Mrs. partlet, the venerable pew-opener, on his arm and announces his intention of marrying her. It may be beautiful in secular music, but it is null and void when it attempts the venerable sequences of plain-song. One must see to believe how venerable the old Patels and Deshmukhs looked when dressed in home-spun khadi. He is now like Bellarmine ranked among the venerable, and the process of his beatification is proceeding. You would do right, the yew is indeed a venerable tree, but it is not about the yew. Mr. Tarkington had some interesting things to say about that venerable mirage, the Great American Novel. They are venerable looking and are clothed like miners in a filleted garment with a leather apron about their loins. From his white cabin at the top of a venerable structure comes the dean of the saltfish business. Bravely defy all that is most venerable, and all that is most unchangeable. I am surprised, on reflection, that this venerable clergyman should have been unvexed by Episcopal censures. Pue's mental part, and the internal operations of his head, than the frizzled wig had contained of the venerable skull itself. Show More Sentences Beside him even the venerable head of the university looked tawdry and small. The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. The venerable face was bearded, or rather whiskered, in the old, heavy Colonel Newcome fashion. The upper floor contained a complete apartment for a family household, and a suite of rooms where the venerable Abbe de Sponde had his abode. The sense of the oldness of the Cathedral vanished away under the influence of this truly venerable presence. Our venerable instructor was a great deal older, and not improved in appearance. A mason has been found to build a little white house between the venerable towers of the Palais de-Justice. I must plead guilty to the charge of abbreviating the official breath of more than one of these venerable servants of the republic. He breathed harder than ever, in a succession of low growls, and wagged his venerable head at his own delinquencies without intermission. He could never become a Guelph, he told his venerable friend. These restorations destroyed all the venerable dignity, cordiality, and patriarchal air of the old house. It was sacrilege to think of changing such old, venerable things. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. The more toothless and drivelling, often the more venerable. The office of ducal Councillor was, perhaps, the most venerable in Venice. The venerable Lucretia Mott, then in her eighty-fourth year, presided. By this unprovoked and unjustifiable act, our venerable friend had suffered a fracture of one of its rungs. Daughter Saide kicks back on a swing beneath a venerable black locust tree that Gail's great-grandfather planted years ago. All Germany was proud of the venerable scholar, who lived in the simplest way, for great scholars are always poor. It was foisted upon that which had already a venerable antiquity. Show More Sentences With that seasonable pleasantry the venerable Bishopriggs winked, and went out. It is believed that the truly great and venerable Gamaliel is buried here. Bergman extended its use, and after him ghan and the venerable Berzelius. His predecessor under the old charter, Bradstreet, a venerable companion of the first settlers, was known to be in town. How have some of these venerable women gone about doing good! Good old Deacon Gookin had arrived, and waited at the skirts of that venerable saint, his revered pastor. He was, in 1876, a man of venerable appearance, with white hair, worn long, and a patriarchal beard. A very merry lunch it was, for everything seemed fresh and funny, and frequent peals of laughter startled a venerable horse who fed near by. After these came twelve most worshipful baboons, in most venerable wigs. Now, venerable priest, further into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it. On the front benches were already a number of venerable figures, muffled in ermine, velvet, and scarlet. Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere. A spate of foreign retail tenants joined the venerable roster of Madison Avenue boutiques, meanwhile, with leases signed by Gianfranco, Equipment and Charivari. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match the church which it looked out upon. To him, and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables, does our story now betake itself, like an owl, bewildered in the daylight, and hastening back to his hollow tree. And why should we question the wisdom of our venerable Father's purpose although this pair, in their early youth, have loved one another as the world's people love? He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema. Those venerable personages in the coop, too, seem very affably disposed. Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end. What could the worthy captain do, to console the tender-hearted old squaw, and, peradventure, to save the venerable patriarch from a curtain lecture? Show More Sentences The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty. It was a very venerable structure, very strong, and very ornamental. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of venerable? Words that rhyme with venerable What is the adverb for venerable? What is the adjective for venerable? What is the noun for venerable? Translations for venerable Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words venerability venepuncture veneers veneering veneered veneer Venerable venerableness venerably venerate venerated venerating 9-letter Words Starting With v ve ven vene vener venera venerab venerabl