How To Use Dignitary In A Sentence

  • One of our guys rolled his oversize truck on a residential street in front of a visiting dignitary.
  • Killavil's ageless flautist and fiddler Peter Horan was one of a number of top traditional Irish musicians who were introduced to the north Belfast dignitary in the Aras.
  • Helen looks slightly concerned and is relieved when a local dignitary merely congratulates her on her name day without a hint of expectation.
  • They had tried to make him a dignitary, but he had jibbed at the gaiters and hat-ropes. Swan Song
  • One of our guys rolled his oversize truck on a residential street in front of a visiting dignitary.
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  • A local dignitary ushered off the last musical act and wished us a safe journey home.
  • The visiting UAE dignitary will then emplane for Colombo. Dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Her uncle, Mr. Quintin Manx, the millionnaire, was an acquaintance of the new Judge and titled dignitary, Sir Cramborne Wathin, and she visited Lady Wathin, at whose table the report in the journals of the Nile-boat party was mentioned. Diana of the Crossways — Complete
  • In Killaloe, where a bishop might be seen walking about every day, the mitred dignitary of the Church, though much loved, was thought of, I fear, but lightly; whereas a Cabinet Minister coming to stay in the house of a townsman was a thing to be wondered at, to be talked about, to be afraid of, to be a fruitful source of conversation for a year to come. Phineas Finn
  • Tanks from the Irish Army along with approximately 6,000 Irish troops in one of the biggest security operations ever mounted for a visiting dignitary.
  • Each dignitary was assigned a specific seat as the Sultan was put at the head of the table.
  • What friend, dignitary, hero, sports idol, movie star, etc. might we ask over to eat with us?
  • The ollamh (ollav), or arch-poet, who was the highest dignitary among the poets, and whose training lasted for some twelve years, was obliged to learn two hundred and fifty of these prime sagas and one hundred secondary ones. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The storeman, plastered with snow, reappears hot and triumphant before the cook, but this dignitary is awkwardly kneading the dough of wholemeal scones, and the messman is feeding the fire with seal-blubber to ensure a "quick" oven. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Standing up and interrupting the speech of a visiting dignitary is not the place nor the time. Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor
  • Inside the pagoda in the backyard of the temple, there lay the remains of the dignitary.
  • As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
  • St Giles is there as the tutelary saint of Baldung's patron, Canon Giles Haas, and may be a portrait of that dignitary, carrying his staff of office although dressed as a friar.
  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A boy of a foreign dignitary is almost killed while in Gotham City, and Batman recieves unexpected aid from Green Arrow. July 2006
  • People are still held accountable for their actions, be it the simple breaking of a window, or the murder of a foreign dignitary, people cannot argue fate made them do it.
  • Indeed at the end of each long day of teaching the role changed from that of a Visiting Professor to that of a Visiting Fireman-the latter being defined as "a visiting dignitary whom it is desirable to entertain impressively". Towards Commonwealth Unity through the Sims Travelling Professorship
  • Originally improvised (as distinct from military signals), fanfares are used for ceremonial purposes, for example to announce the entrance of a dignitary, and are characterized by reliance on the harmonic series.
  • doctorand" has performed the whole duty of the Bolognese student, gives him permission to enter for the first or Private Examination, and he again takes the oath of obedience to that dignitary. Life in the Medieval University
  • Besides this diplomatical dignitary and his wife, we had two American gentlemen of more than average intelligence, who related wonderful things of the 'spiritual manifestations' (so called), incontestable things, inexplicable things. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The eldest of the trio, a paunched and jowled dignitary whose beard and hair were obviously touched up in a none-too-successful effort to belie his more than three score years, glared in distaste at the scene of action unfolding while the cachinnations of the general audience grew in volume.
  • The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust.
  • Palace when the promoter, Bob Arum, introduced him to a visiting dignitary from the South Korean Boxing Federation – Lieutenant General Heroes or Villains?
  • Chase: “Standing up and interrupting the speech of a visiting dignitary is not the place nor the time.” Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor
  • One day, after having completed five surgeries, I picked up my wife and drove to a formal dinner being held in Manhattan in honor of a titled dignitary. Manifesting Michelangelo
  • If he is a dignitary he wears the epigonation and (in Russia) the mitre also. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Manx, the millionnaire, was an acquaintance of the new Judge and titled dignitary, Sir Cramborne Wathin, and she visited Lady Wathin, at whose table the report in the journals of the Nile-boat party was mentioned. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

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