How to Use hauteur in a Sentence

hauteur

noun

• Putting him and his wife and his children inside my world was the worst hauteur.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• Mike Bloomberg’s is the rarefied hauteur of the technocrat.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
• Rapp’s vibe in person, though, is warm and ironic, a far cry from Queen Bee Regina’s ice-cold hauteur.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Beneath the chilly hauteur of Levy's Elsa lies a world of fear, sadness and confusion.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• England’s secretary of state for the American colonies has a hint of hauteur about him, but also a sense of doubt.
  — Lynne Cheney, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Red-glass lanterns on the facade hint at happy hanky-panky, and the warm welcome at reception is the first clue that this hotel has ditched the hauteur.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness — a holdover, maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Susan Beresford is of course the love interest: a willowy, auburn-haired heiress whose hauteur and needling humor mask a tender heart.
  — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• As young Charlotte, the actress balances the confidence and hauteur of a headstrong young woman with the quiet yearning of a child who has been forced to grow up too fast.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Or of Cordelia, played by Stampley with regal hauteur but little of the love and tenderness Lear’s youngest daughter feels.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• Cats are not thought to be such selfless creatures, what with their hauteur and froideur and general aura of disregard.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• But there was something about her, a bemused hauteur or suppressed hilarity -- plus that flame of hair.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
• At the more affluent end of the spectrum, a prostitute can communicate a chilly hauteur.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Her Elizabeth has conquered her emotions, at great cost and in the name of duty — and now here come the expressive ’60s and ’70s, in which she and her family are suddenly seen as the faces of stuffy hauteur.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• The Academy Award-winning actress, known for her fierce talent and daunting hauteur, boasts a career spanning 60 years.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 16 July 2024
• To one side, Louis Garrel, the brooding, dark-eyed poster boy of cinematic hauteur, was vaping in thoughtful solitude.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Mar. 2017
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Andrés announces, with Wildean hauteur, when his friends mock his horrible boyfriend’s workout Instas.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• It’s pushed along by his stout acoustic guitar strumming and David Rea’s sleek fingerpicking accents, which reinforce the lyric’s hauteur.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Despite this hauteur—or perhaps because of it—many of us cannot resist bringing these regal creatures into our homes, litter boxes and all.
  — Julia Calderone, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Despite this hauteur—or perhaps because of it—many of us cannot resist bringing these regal creatures into our homes, litter boxes and all.
  — Ádám Miklósi, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
• Bach wears his imperial hauteur like a winter overcoat.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 17 June 2016
• Jagger is, in fact, distracted by a solo career; the other band members aren’t happy about that, or about his growing hauteur after almost two decades of managing the band’s affairs.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Although the Beast is an entirely digital creation, based in part on Jean Cocteau’s groundbreaking 1946 silent film, Stevens imbues his hauteur and fanged hostility with pathos and arch humor.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017