How to Use venerable in a Sentence
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This is the 100th year of this venerable event in Chicago.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
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With this set, the venerable brand has entered the bakeware scene.
—Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
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But there’s one venerable NFL head coach in his early 70s who still has a team in the playoffs.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
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On that note: the venerable Art21 did a segment with Marshall about the creation of the windows.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
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The venerable movie studio takes a look back in this new docuseries.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
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Here are such venerable relics as frieze-blocks from the Parthenon, reproduced in blotchy, pulpy pink.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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That has led to a spate of innovations for and tweaks to some of TV’s most venerable programs.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Nov. 2022
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The venerable jazz sax and flute player and composer has lived here with his wife, Dorothy Darr, for about 25 years.
—Steve Hochman, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
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Often, the recruiters would have the musicians play first at the Club 47, the tiny but venerable Harvard Square venue.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
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The Dodger Stadium broadcast booth and the street address of the venerable ballpark bear his name.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
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And, in the meantime, SpaceX has been eating the more venerable aerospace giant’s lunch.
—Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
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Ford attributes the losses to the growing pains of what is says is a start-up business in the venerable company.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
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Nowhere has the explosion of new forms been more noticeable than with the venerable coral bells.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2023
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Amid recent trends in both high and low ABV, perhaps no style has been left in the dust more than the venerable American pale ale.
—Kate Bernot, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
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The headline-making deal that has left the venerable social media firm in his hands has, after fits and starts, come to fruition.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
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Famous faces supply questions for the answers in a prime-time edition of the venerable game show.
—cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
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The checks he’s written are to some of the world’s most venerable institutions.
—Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
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His takeover of the venerable Harrods in 1985 struck many Britons as shameless brass, something akin to buying Big Ben.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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So how can anyone hope to fill her venerable heels in Season 21?
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
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The Country Club is long-established as one of golf’s most venerable venues.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
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Foie gras ice cream My food quest kicked off with lunch at the venerable institution, Arzak.
—Chris Dwyer, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
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But then the wily and venerable Wainwright managed to shut the door, reaching deep into his bag of tricks to allow only a single run to score.
—Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
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In addition to over-the-top amenities, from one of the city’s most sumptuous spas to gourmet fine dining, Aman Tokyo has long served as one of the city’s most venerable locales.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2023
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For tonight, at least, the venerable show is generating headlines of its own.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 May 2022
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But José Ralat, who has held the title of taco editor at the venerable magazine Texas Monthly since 2019, isn’t so dazzled by the kid.
—Forrest Brown, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
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Ratings have been in decline leading to doubts about the relevancy of the venerable awards show.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
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The achievement comes just over a week after Nvidia became the third most valuable U.S. company, leapfrogging the venerable Google.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
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Vonage, which is at this point a venerable company in the world of VoIP, scores poorly uniformly across all the metrics.
—Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2022
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Operated by the venerable British line Cunard, which has been sailing for more than 180 years, the Queen Mary 2 is a true ocean liner purpose built for transatlantic trips.
—Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2024
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Plus, with the departure of Adrian Newey, one of the engineering keys to Red Bull’s success, a host of competitors are frothing, vying to snap the venerable race car designer up.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 19 July 2024
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