How to Use prestige in a Sentence

prestige

noun
  • The job has low pay and low prestige.
  • The family has wealth and social prestige.
  • Her career as a diplomat has brought her enormous prestige.
  • Hamad and his advisers recognized that this role promised prestige at little cost.
    Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And to all of a sudden go from this lofty level of prestige to flashing your breasts to a gorilla — that feels like a pretty steep drop.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • An effective prestige signal depends not just on the message but on the messenger and the medium.
    Michael Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Fragrance is prestige beauty’s fastest growing category and men are leading the charge.
    James Manso, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Netflix will revisit a classic novel for its latest prestige series.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
  • With billions of dollars swishing through the global sport system, mega events provide proximity to money, power and prestige.
    Jules Boykoff, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Mendes refers to Osborne unsubtly but for prestige — and #MeToo movie significance.
    Armond White, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
  • With a super wide range of prestige brands—hi, Dior, Nars—the retailer reliably satisfies our cravings for all things beauty.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Streaming rode the prestige wave launched by HBO, and ongoing storylines, parceled out chapter by chapter, became the default.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Carnegie Mellon occupies a unique niche: in addition to its prestige as a technical institution, the school is also world-class in the fine arts and performing arts.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing, & has become nothing more than a political body, with our Country paying the price.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Going forward, future premium prestige original series and films will be branded to HBO, not Max.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Never had the prestige of the United States been higher in that part of the world.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Malkovich adds an injection of prestige to the project.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • In some cases, the prestige of a new car is a requirement for work.
    Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • But the show doesn’t present itself as prestige TV, or even as a slick tale of a scorned wife’s revenge.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024
  • The first area is the prestige limited event series space.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • For of-the-moment items, Wright said that speed is as equally crucial as the prestige of the piece itself.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
  • The pairing of Cruise and the filmmaker is sure to raise the notion that the actor is hoping for a prestige play.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Both games push against the trend of games chasing Hollywood’s glitz and prestige.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The Year of the Dragon symbolizes prestige, power and strength.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But as his prestige grew, so too did Prigozhin’s criticism of those around Putin.
    Peter Rutland, Fortune, 25 June 2023
  • What matters to us is cinema and all those who work to give it its prestige.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Indeed, the Achilles’ heel of such items is discounting, which chips away at the aura of prestige.
    The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But the newest honor comes with an extra dose of prestige.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The kind of story that usually shows up on prestige TV these days, not the movie theater.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2024
  • There was a period of prestige TV where there was a false view that these shows are novels.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024

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