How to Use repute in a Sentence

repute

1 of 2 verb

• This guy is reputed to be a great hitter.
  — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
• The midway was anchored by what was reputed to be the largest ballroom in the world.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2017
• What Bismarck is reputed to have said about laws and sausages comes to mind.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 June 2019
• Benjamin Franklin was reputed to be an addict in later life, as many were at the time.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• They were reputed to have spent as much as $700 million on their art holdings.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 18 May 2026
• Sharks were reputed to have changed their migration patterns to take advantage of the new source of food.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• They’re reputed to be the wildest of all birds, completely untameable.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• As Winston Churchill is reputed to have said, never waste a good crisis.
  — Time, 26 Feb. 2026
• Jaws reputed to exert as much as 600 pounds of pressure leave an impressive bruise.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2017
• David was also reputed to be a talented harpist and the author of many psalms, or devotional songs.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Alger was reputed to gather the boys to him like the Pied Piper, giving them money and candy.
  — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
• Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, as the philosopher George Santayana is reputed to have said.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2019
• The small community on the mountain is centered around a shrine honoring a saint reputed to cure mental illness.
  — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019
• Southerners are expected to be kind and hospitable, and New Yorkers are reputed to be rude.
  — Los Angeles Times News Service, NOLA.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• It's reputed to have irregular opening hours, but Thursday to Sunday evenings seem a safe bet.
  — Emily Ding, CNN, 21 May 2017
• The city’s Park Hyatt hovers at a price between those two, and is reputed as the most affordable hotel in the five-star chain.
  — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• Method Man is a Pisces, a personality type reputed to have changeable moods, sleepy eyes, and baggy clothes.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 27 June 2023
• It was filmed at Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a venue reputed to have paranormal events of its own.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• Troxell and Yandell are reputed to be part of a three-man commission that runs the gang in California.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• He is reputed for being the best answer to one of the greatest players ever in LeBron James.
  — Bay Area News Group, Orange County Register, 31 May 2017
• Biden has never been reputed for his fundraising prowess, and until just a few days ago, a wide field of moderate candidates was spreading donor money thin.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• Nestled in Dubai’s Deira district, the city’s Gold Souk is reputed to be the largest and cheapest gold market in the world.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
• Its basketball courts are reputed to have nurtured future NBA players.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
• Maddon's reputed for his creativity, and the Cubs hardly seem likely to trot out the same eight position players for every game of the playoffs.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
• Price said Mesoraco could be saved for at-bats late in the game against high-end relievers, as Mesoraco has power and his reputed as a strong fastball hitter.
  — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• And, less than an hour from Glasgow city center, is the renowned Bruntsfield club, founded in 1761 and reputed to be the fourth oldest in the world.
  — Glasgow, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• Last Wednesday, Ford, which is reputed to have the best relationship with its workers, reached a tentative agreement to end the strike at its factories.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Dmitry Utkin, reputed to have been Prigozyn’s operational leader, was also on the plane, according to the manifest.
  — NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Couples can get messy together at Sulphur Springs (where the mud baths are reputed to heal sunburn and soothe sore joints) and rinse off under a 50-foot-tall waterfall.
  — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
• Before Roosevelt, there was 6-foot-4 Abraham Lincoln, a gangly, spindly wrestler who is reputed to have lost only one fight over a dozen years.
  — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026

repute

2 of 2 noun

• As of this writing, no free agent of repute has signed with a team.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Nov. 2017
• Dillinger lived large, spending money on cars, clothes and ladies of ill repute.
  — Neal Taflinger, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
• Polyphemus, then, means one much spoken of, someone of great repute.
  — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• While the robbers may not have seen the value in the boards, Goddard holds the game in high repute.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Although Gstaad's repute may seem mythic, the hype is well deserved.
  — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• For years, free-to-play mobile games have had a reputation of ill repute, and for good reason.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
• Windows put the tech Goliath on the map; cloud services and gaming have kept it in high repute.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
• But perhaps more important, Ma came from a high caste family of good repute.
  — Moni Basu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
• The houses of ill repute are packed with loyal congregations.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• To be sure, art history is riddled with important figures of ill repute.
  — Robin Pogrebin and Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2018
• Traditionally, most of that malt has gone into blends of varying repute.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
• Before the Irish bar opened in 1910, the building was a blacksmiths - and house of ill repute.
  — cleveland.com, 6 July 2017
• This isn’t because democratic values such as equality and freedom are in ill repute.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Since the first duffers teed off in 1924, this Scottish course has gained repute as one of the world’s top golf spots.
  — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Albums of a such repute heralded a permanent shift in the calculus of pop power.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
• Yet, some incidents have brought the entire game into repute and aren't likely to be forgotten anytime soon.
  — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• The idea of American exceptionalism has long been in ill repute among critics on the left.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• But Curio has earned wide repute in turning the literary into the theatrical.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• Her grandmother was a medical doctor of international repute, and had led quite a life.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• These 25 selections were picked based on ease of use, brand repute, and ingredient quality.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2022
• The exhibition displays three of the grand, full-length female portraits that wrongly cemented that repute.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• Arryk and Erryk find themselves in a house of ill repute where children as young as 10 are forced to grow their nails, file their teeth, and fight as drunken denizens cheer them on.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• By the time this photo was taken, the Horn Palace was a roadhouse of ill repute, mainly because of the reputation of its owner.
  — ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• The introduction of 2-year-old racing at Oaklawn last season added to the track's repute in that category.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• The government crackdown has enlisted elite police squads more accustomed to busting brothels and other locales of ill repute.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• On this chessboard of architectural repute, a more modest museum tries gamely to distinguish itself.
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
• Cooking for three or four nights each, global chefs of serious repute show their skills, influences, techniques and flavors while learning about the city's produce and traditions.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 4 May 2017
• Shough may not be the next Trubisky, but the Tar Heels did well to snatch a signal-caller of his repute amid overtures from several national powers.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 4 July 2017
• Maybe that’s in free agency with Cooper Rush or Joshua Dobbs — the only veterans of any sort of repute still available — or in a trade or waiver claim.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 25 June 2026
• But as my colleague Bernhard Warner wrote in Fortune recently, activist shorts have recently gained wider repute on the strength of a number of prescient calls.
  — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020