How to Use greatness in a Sentence

greatness

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  • The rest of us just want a chance to touch that greatness.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And even in the midst of all this greatness, there are some who shine the brightest.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • In the end, the questions remain: Can Jones make the leap to greatness?
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Can’t wait to perform for you guys and be a part of this greatness!!
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The Green Bay Packers appear to be on the brink of greatness.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • How much more so when its greatness is confirmed and the play takes root in the soil of a new time.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This is the one of the oldest fables asking what is the price of greatness.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This award honors greatness and strength that goes above and beyond the fields and courts.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And yet very few among us achieve moments of greatness in our lives.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In the pantheon of greatness in music, Joni reigns supreme.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But the structure of the book gives it a greatness that transcends the author’s smallness.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The Morning Show is so close to something like greatness.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But Bronny James’ greatness comes in the little things.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • These two n-s that I’ve just been blessed to even stand beside in this game, let alone chase — chase their greatness, right?
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2024
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    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • Burna Boy has never been in doubt of his own greatness.
    — Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • And their greatness gives cover to those who would diminish his importance to the team and to the game.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
  • From the owner’s suite to the locker room, the series reveals an insider’s look at the road to — and cost of — greatness.
    — Stacy Lambe, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The Trojans haven’t won a title in 39 years, but third-year boss Gottlieb has brought this new culture to the verge of greatness.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The production here in Washington shows that word of its greatness can be spread by the Keegans of the world, too.
    — Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • All of which makes the Trans Am's former greatness seem really great this year.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the brink of chaos.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Yet, no one in the baseball world can deny their sustained greatness.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • For me, the immensity of the scene awakens the soul to the many mysteries and greatness of the universe and to our relative place in it.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • The stories of people who never did well in school and then went on to achieve greatness in many disparate fields are legion.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Air is a film about taking chances, about believing in something that’s bigger than all of us and putting it on the line to chase greatness.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This project was 17-tracks deep and included no features, which is a testament to the greatness that is Nasir Jones.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This month will be your first opportunity to live in the plateau of greatness rather than clawing your way up to get here.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
  • For the 22-year-old Smith, greatness is the expectation — from both herself and others.
    — oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • Young’s path to greatness also began his sophomore year in a comeback road win over Penn State in 2018.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 27 July 2023

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