How to Use dignitary in a Sentence

dignitary

noun

• The dinner was attended by many foreign dignitaries.
• That line got the biggest cheer of his speech from the crowd of dignitaries.
  — Cindy Wang / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 May 2024
• Some turned their backs on the dignitary, and wore red gloves as a symbol of the bloodshed.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 12 July 2018
• Arafat was the first foreign dignitary to visit Iran after the fall of the shah.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
• The dignitaries and stars dined on shrimp, squab, wild rice, Parisian potatoes and peas with pearl onions.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• Billie Jean King came out as the on-field dignitary this year.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
• Mr Piñera does not have much time to convince dignitaries that this is still true.
  — The Economist, 20 Oct. 2019
• Local dignitaries welcomed them and a folk dance troupe put on a show on the tarmac.
  — Hamza Hendawi, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Here's a basic primer on the celebration, which will take place in Tokyo in front of dignitaries from around the world.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 21 Oct. 2019
• Usher is set to hit the road again later this year as 2024 is shaping up to be a banner year for the R&B dignitary.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2024
• The ceremony ends with the lighting of the Olympic torch, often by a dignitary of the host nation.
  — WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• This entrance is used by lawyers, dignitaries, and, early in April, me.
  — Batya Ungar-Sargon, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• After the news of his death broke, dignitaries from around the world commented on his life and legacy.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• And, of course, there’s Streep, who along with Rudd gets the special guest star credit of a visiting dignitary.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• Navarro told the crowd of dignitaries from across Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.
  — Daily Pilot, 2 Oct. 2019
• There was not a lot of social time even though the box could be filled with dignitaries, sponsors, family, and friends.
  — Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• Macron was the first dignitary to approach the coffin, bowing before it.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• Most of her gigs are for just a handful of days during a conference or a visit by a dignitary.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Gogol’s father, a small landowner who wrote bad comedies and worked as a sort of court jester for a wealthy dignitary, died when Gogol was sixteen.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
• Jackson, protected like a foreign dignitary for most of the game, forced a throw over the middle to Brown on third-and-long before he got hit.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• Roads have been cleaned and buildings freshly painted ahead of the dignitaries’ visit.
  — Vedika Sud, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• The royal pair will then take a short walkabout to greet locals and have lunch with local dignitaries at Chester’s town hall.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2018
• Salmon and other dignitaries rode a bus from the middle school to the high school, when Monday’s celebration was held.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 4 June 2018
• Bransfield walked just behind Wuerl in a procession of global dignitaries, video of the event shows.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
• They will be joined by dignitaries and service members.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• Modi, meanwhile, no longer has to play host to a foreign dignitary, giving him and his BJP party more room to crack down.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 29 Feb. 2020
• Foreign dignitaries and members of the government were due to travel and so the palace needed to explain now why Charles would not be there.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• Like Sanders, Gaither roped off a plum section of the stadium for dignitaries; for Gaither, this meant white dignitaries.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• The walls feature the couple’s collection of Chinese paintings and prints, including a series of Chinese dignitaries from 1850.
  — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2024
• These were followed by projects in Qatar, Jordan and Lebanon for various government officials and dignitaries.
  — Rima Suqi, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024