How to Use prestige in a Sentence
prestige
noun- The job has low pay and low prestige.
- The family has wealth and social prestige.
- Her career as a diplomat has brought her enormous prestige.
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Such prestige is hard-won, but the perks seem well worth the pain.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
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The at-large bids bring both cash and prestige to the conference.
—oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
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Never had the prestige of the United States been higher in that part of the world.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
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The 1930s were the high point of Neo-Romantic prestige.
—Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
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Rarely is it seen with the same prestige as league success.
—Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
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The year may be drawing to a close, but the onslaught of prestige TV isn’t slowing.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2021
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Malkovich adds an injection of prestige to the project.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
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The Pitt is a unique hybrid of a network show and a prestige drama.
—Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
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The plunging pound is a blow to the U.K.'s prestige as well as its pocketbook.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
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That the prestige of the office is sullied by his grasp for profits.
—Eric Heavner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2025
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And her recent awards had brought a lot of prestige to the hospital.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2021
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In some cases, the prestige of a new car is a requirement for work.
—Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
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The prestige of inclusion in the 12-team field is hardly the only perk.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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But the show doesn’t present itself as prestige TV, or even as a slick tale of a scorned wife’s revenge.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
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The first area is the prestige limited event series space.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 June 2023
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Yet the tidal waves of prestige still keep their distance from Toyota.
—Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022
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For of-the-moment items, Wright said that speed is as equally crucial as the prestige of the piece itself.
—Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
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New York still maintains its prestige in the top five spot with 21.5 percent.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2022
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The pairing of Cruise and the filmmaker is sure to raise the notion that the actor is hoping for a prestige play.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
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For seven of its eight episodes, The Penguin paid homage to the antihero era of prestige TV.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Both games push against the trend of games chasing Hollywood’s glitz and prestige.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
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The Year of the Dragon symbolizes prestige, power and strength.
—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024
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And should students choose where to go to college based on what has become a proxy for prestige?
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
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His decision may come down to prestige with the Tide and early playing time with the Tigers.
—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 11 Dec. 2021
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But as his prestige grew, so too did Prigozhin’s criticism of those around Putin.
—Peter Rutland, Fortune, 25 June 2023
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In prestige skin care, Lancaster saw double-digit sales growth in the last three months of the year, supported by the launch of the Golden Lift line.
—Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 18 Apr. 2025
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Seduced by the rising prestige of the sciences—on campus and in the culture—humanists reshaped their work to mimic scientific inquiry.
—D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
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