stature

Example Sentences

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But that’s the thing about an icon: Stature is established but meaning can get stuck like a fly in amber.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Stature and demeanor and raw talent rarely combine as they have in Giolito, who Baseball America and MLB.com agree is the top right-handed pitching prospect in the sport.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2016

What you need is defendable Person of Stature — someone who is likeable and/or on the right side of most issues, despite the current controversy.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2015

Stature was measured in accumulated possessions and in generosity.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

She is of a good Stature, has a grand Majestic Air, and her Behaviour is graceful and polite.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von