How to Use honorific in a Sentence

honorific

adjective

• The latter, in the World Cup context, is an honorific, not a fault.
  — Liz Clarke, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• Wahid, known by the honorific Gus Dur, was a Muslim cleric beloved for his jovial style.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• The Louis Armstrong Memorial Dishwasher had come with the kitchen; the honorific had not.
  — Nick Friedman, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• The goal is to change all eponymous or honorific bird names — those after whom a discovery is named or in honor or someone.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
• She's been the reigning queen of no makeup for almost a year now, and her latest hairstyle just earned her another honorific.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 July 2017
• And David, once dignified with the Turkish honorific effendi, would die in Auschwitz with much of his family in 1943.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• And as she’s traded in her leadership title for the honorific speaker emerita, Pelosi has lost the bulk of her staff and coveted office space.
  — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Then proceed to use it, honorific followed by surname, just as frequently as the other person does.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 June 2019
• Male physicians are more frequently introduced with the honorific Doctor so and so.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 28 Mar. 2018
• For Ms. Michaels, something in that odd honorific resonated.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• Not only do most of the littlest babies perform up to grade-level in school, but some excel brilliantly, with 1.8% earning the gifted honorific.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 June 2017
• Tillerson received an honorific – the Order of Friendship – from Putin’s government in 2013.
  — Richard Lardner, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2017
• In this sense, Elmendorf’s statement is true: People do misperceive the title as an honorific.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• When a protein source contains an adequate supply of all nine essential amino acids, it’s dubbed with the honorific title of complete protein.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Aug. 2019
• In South Korea, those born in the same year often treat each other as equals, while people must use honorific titles to address those born earlier, rather than directly using their names.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• But Mrs. is the only feminine honorific on jetmaker Bombardier’s sales-rep contact form.
  — Mark Vanhoenacker, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• The Demon’s genius lies in its engagement with American drag-racing culture and its roots in honorific dueling.
  — WSJ, 20 July 2017
• Pelosi skipped some of the traditional honorific talk when introducing the president.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
• However, Mr Raab holds the honorific title of first secretary of state, indicating his status as Mr Johnson’s preferred deputy.
  — The Economist, 6 Apr. 2020
• Now she's officially considered a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of a knight, which is simply an honorific and bears no official duties.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
• Geraldine Ferraro was running for Vice President, and the Times’ inviolable house style insisted on an honorific.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
• Marnie: Vineyard ownership is such a hugely important quality factor in the wine world that some European regions have their own honorific terms that can be used only for estate wines.
  — Gar Joseph, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• It’s used sometimes as an honorific, to praise directors with a strong artistic mark, and sometimes merely as a description, to suggest that directors bear the ultimate responsibility for a movie’s quality (or lack of it).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 June 2019
• The Marchesa Origo, to give Iris her proper honorific, acquired a reputation as a valiant humanitarian.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
• Members of the academies—which serve as both honorific societies and advisers to the U.S. government—are elected by existing members to life-long terms, and the bodies currently lack mechanisms for removing them for harassment.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 1 June 2018
• America's outlook on Indian life is by turns lionizing and loathing, honorific and ostracizing.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
• The honorific title has little legal weight other than to commemorate its architectural significance, said Jay Correia, the coordinator for the national register program in California.
  — Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
• Now that gender-nonconforming people are gaining visibility, dictionaries and publications are also adopting the gender-neutral honorific Mx.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 8 July 2017

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024