How to Use cachet in a Sentence

cachet

noun
  • His research in Antarctica gave him a certain cachet among other scientists.
  • Part of James’s project was to imbue genre forms with the cachet of literature.
    The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The Mustang has such cachet that Ford's first long-range battery-electric car will wear pony car styling cues.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The L’Oréal brand’s cachet in makeup could not go unnoticed.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
  • There’s tremendous cachet in secondhand shopping these days.
    Kate Bowers, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2019
  • And as a little guy on campus, he was never afforded the social cachet that came with being good at sports.
    Ben Terris, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • As for that resort to the bank of Warren Buffett: His cachet doesn’t come cheap.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In some cases, the prices fetched on the secondhand market might only add to a label’s mystique and cachet.
    Sarah Halzack and Andrea Felsted | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • There is no Michael Pollan of sound; limiting your noise intake has none of the cachet of going paleo or doing a cleanse.
    Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Having an address on Angelo Drive also lends a certain cachet.
    Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • With his cachet growing staler and staler in Germany, Joachim Low needs a way out, and what better way out than one of the biggest club sides in the world?
    SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The best athletes in Egypt were drawn by squash’s new cachet, which was bolstered when top American universities and prep schools started recruiting here.
    David Segal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
  • One: Dutch ovens of a certain cachet, namely Le Creuset, are typical gifts or big-splurge investments, and no one wants to mess up a beautiful, pricey piece.
    Becky Krystal, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The cachet of being able to promote a leading U.S. financial institution would be priceless to Tencent.
    Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Nancy Drew, meanwhile, has a far longer history and accumulated cachet than Batwoman.
    Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The idea being that the higher the price, the greater the cachet of the good, and the more people covet it.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Each brings a cachet that the Four Corner schools don’t.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • By the end of the ’50s, the Method had lost much of its cachet in theatrical circles.
    Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There wouldn’t be a team in the SEC who could compete with that amount of cachet and cool.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The electric event proved that the pandemic hadn’t cooled the brand’s cachet.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2021
  • At the same time, Hahn also knows celebrities give the Pro-Am its cachet.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2022
  • And recruiters say many are drawn to the cachet of being a Marine.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
  • But there’s no denying the cachet that comes along with a star, not to mention the business.
    Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2024
  • British tea culture still has a cachet around the world, and still means something at home.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
  • Plus, neither Mackie nor Chao comes to the film with much mushy cachet.
    Amy Nicholson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The full-menu restaurant, while pricey, adds further cachet to this swanky joint.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Though the fourth-highest peak in the world, Lhotse bears little of the cachet of its neighbor, Everest.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 Feb. 2020
  • West still has some outlaw cachet in the high fashion world.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • There’s more to living in a penthouse than the social cachet.
    Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The James Brand x Timex watch collection lends a relatively small, specialized brand the cachet of a major timepiece maker.
    Benjamin Crudo, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024

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