How to Use august in a Sentence

august

adjective

• The family claims an august lineage.
• We visited their august mansion and expansive grounds.
• What next, aside from a tweet from Trump hailing the NFL for its wise and august management?
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• As such Miklovic brings an august presence, officious and ready to ensure the integrity of the brand.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
• How can anyone devote space in this august newspaper to the filthy habit of licking?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 6 May 2018
• The Senate is already a smaller place, a shadow of its former august self.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
• Come for the novel's august reputation, but stay for the prose—this is Fitzgerald at his lyrical best.
  — Adrienne Westenfeld, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2014
• One Twenty-fifth, in Harlem—and couldn’t get access to an august publication like that.
  — The New Yorker, 10 June 2019
• Robert Montgomery came from an august line of lawyers and founded the investment firm now known as Janney Montgomery Scott.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The august, multipeaked range lies in North Korea and has been impossible to visit for most of the past seven decades.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Supreme Court—formerly an august, quiet part of the constitution—has crashed the main stage of British politics.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• While an august way to showcase towering portions of beef, when the cart comes rumbling toward your table, most of the sides also come with it.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The latest startup to come out of the august school is Poshling, a private sale site for luxury childrenswear that launches this Friday.
  — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2011
• But Leslie West staked a claim as one of the best guitarists in Woodstock's august ranks, raising Mountain's stock exponentially.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019
• Trump had bought the august old club an hour’s drive down the west coast from Glasgow in 2014, intending to remodel the club’s facilities in his signature style.
  — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2017
• And the seemingly august Austrian institute turned out to be a language school.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• This august publication, meanwhile, gave him some rather terse career advice just a few weeks into his new job: Bag it.
  — Si Wire, SI.com, 22 May 2017
• He would be appalled at what that august institution has since become.
  — WSJ, 20 May 2018
• This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
• Yet Abernathy stepped up to helm the august organization.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2019
• After my windshield was shattered in a Princeton hailstorm, I was led to a shop in a less august town, where, with the coordination of surgeons, young men my age replaced the curving glass.
  — Mark Helprin, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• The Trump era has seen many formerly august institutions abase themselves.
  — Max C. Eden, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• And plenty of readers are still here, too, even in a brutal publishing climate that has forced august women’s titles like Glamour, Seventeen, Self, and Redbook to retreat from print for the web.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2019
• Carey was lip-synching to a backing track, which plenty of august and capable performers do when participating in a live, televised event.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2017
• The Senate session was not like the typical ones that get public attention where all 33 senators sit in their august chamber and debate one another.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2019
• That august body is due to elect its new President next week, and to everyone’s surprise the campaign has become genuinely competitive.
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2017
• An august body makes decisions that the legislature is incapable of doing, but it was written in such a manner as to guarantee a certain outcome: provider cuts.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• The arts ecosphere is, however, a large one, ranging from august New York institutions to local children’s after-school programs.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 30 May 2017
• The fate of Robert Godwin Sr. — father of nine, grandfather of 14 — wouldn’t ordinarily intrude in such august surroundings.
  — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017
• Philip, too, could seem a beguiling but remote citadel: august, many-towered, lavishly defended.
  — Benjamin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

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