How to Use eminent in a Sentence

eminent

adjective

• 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
• 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
• For decades during the Cold War, the pre-eminent threats seemed to come from Europe.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• The British pound was once the world’s pre-eminent currency.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
• If there’s a pre-eminent scholar of beer, the author is it.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
• On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the Whites ... have still something eminent about them.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Cornel West is among the eminent thinkers and voices of our time.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
• This will be the 75th meeting in what has become the pre-eminent matchup between these two HBCU schools.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Girls are not eminent to take care of themselves at night.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
• Keep in mind Russia is the world’s pre-eminent Eurasian land power.
  — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Joel Whitburn, one of the pre-eminent chart historians of the last 50-plus years, has died.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 14 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Also, Freeney was never the pre-eminent pass-rusher of his era.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 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
• Soleimani, the world’s pre-eminent sponsor of terrorism, is now dead.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2020
• One such was Dale Clevenger, the eminent French hornist.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Where did my eminent colleagues think this $10 million a year was going to come from?
  — Marcel Agüeros, Wired, 18 May 2021
• Some sort of eminent scientist turns up in a single short scene shot in a basement.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Even some of the most eminent individuals have erred in this way.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Sanders and Shepp aren’t the only eminent jazzmen making vital statements this year.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
• For all those who emerge from S.A.B. to make it into the nation’s pre-eminent company, there are many more whose dreams are shattered.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• In one case, the pre-eminent vaccine company Merck got on board.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The Taliban has this year intensified ties with the Kremlin as the pre-eminent power in Central Asia.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• Over the summer, Michael Dirda, the eminent literary critic, wrote about his book habits: here.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Sep. 2023
• South-East Asia soon emerged as the pre-eminent destination for foreign waste.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• Europe’s pre-eminent leader had stayed up all night to break more than four months of post-election gridlock in Germany.
  — John Follain, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024