venerable

in a sentence

The twice-tolling clock, the Count explained, had been commissioned by his father from the venerable firm of Breguet.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Among zookeepers, Goliath's death is famous; he was a bull elephant seal, a great big venerable beast of two tons, star of his European zoo, loved by all visitors.  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Then Goretti's mother-in-law told her about a program started in the village by CARE, the venerable American aid organization that has focused increasingly on the needs of women and girls.  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

She glanced-venerably—down at Lionel, whose mouth was still open.†  (source) J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories, 1953

the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to its original beauty, and thus giving that impression of permanence which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851

For ever Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'st up the princess by that forced baseness Which he has put upon't!†  (source) William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 1610

And just consider: what would become of the sanctity of prayer, what of the venerability of the Brahmans' caste, what of the holiness of the Samanas, if it was as you say, if there was no learning?†  (source) Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, 1951

And he wanted them badly enough to stand up to the venerable head of the family.  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

The news shows Mayor De Roos venerably bowing his head at a press conference.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

Her situation at Gardencourt therefore, appreciated as we have seen her to be by Isabel and full of appreciation herself of that free play of intelligence which, to her sense, rendered Isabel's character a sister-spirit, and of the easy venerableness of Mr. Touchett, whose noble tone, as she said, met with her full approval—her situation at Gardencourt would have been perfectly comfortable had she not conceived an irresistible mistrust of the little lady for whom she had at first supposed herself obliged to "allow" as mistress of the house.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier:  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, 1954

Let reverend Priam in the truce engage, And add the sanction of considerate age; His sons are faithless, headlong in debate, And youth itself an empty wavering state; Cool age advances, venerably wise, Turns on all hands its deep-discerning eyes; Sees what befell, and what may yet befall, Concludes from both, and best provides for all.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.