guerdon

Example Sentences

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To snag the top guerdon at a fake National Spelling Bee, Guy relies on his photographic memory and a certain prospicience about the vulnerabilities of spelling prodigies.

From Time • Mar. 13, 2014

When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The guerdon of the struggle remained the same; but, by the beginning of the last scene, most of its contenders and nearly all of their weapons had been altered.

From Time Magazine Archive

They cannot understand how others will strive and struggle for years, will stake life itself to secure that precious guerdon.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

It was intended not only as a reward for their good behavior in the past, but a guerdon of better things should that hostility assume a more definite form.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler