How to Use venerable in a Sentence

venerable

adjective
  • This is the 100th year of this venerable event in Chicago.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And what a stain on baseball and one of its most venerable teams.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • With this set, the venerable brand has entered the bakeware scene.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The venerable movie studio takes a look back in this new docuseries.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The venerable soap Days of Our Lives will return for a 61st season.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Here are such venerable relics as frieze-blocks from the Parthenon, reproduced in blotchy, pulpy pink.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Of the mid-size sedans, the venerable Toyota Camry is the one with the most inventory.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • But, as with any event at the venerable 4-mile track just outside Elkhart Lake, the race is just one part of the experience.
    Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2021
  • 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
  • The Dodger Stadium broadcast booth and the street address of the venerable ballpark bear his name.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And, in the meantime, SpaceX has been eating the more venerable aerospace giant’s lunch.
    Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Nowhere has the explosion of new forms been more noticeable than with the venerable coral bells.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The most venerable form of literary friction may be the scratch of pen on paper.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • But the car is more than just a zero-emissions version of the venerable saloon.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Famous faces supply questions for the answers in a prime-time edition of the venerable game show.
    cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
  • It’s inspired by Yassa, the venerable African restaurant on the South Side.
    Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2021
  • The checks he’s written are to some of the world’s most venerable institutions.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • So how can anyone hope to fill her venerable heels in Season 21?
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Country Club is long-established as one of golf’s most venerable venues.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Some things that are old become venerable, others become clichéd, others just cease to speak to the times.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • At Baur au Lac, Zurich's grandest hotel, contemporary art has been installed behind the reception, the wood panelling spruced up and its venerable newsstand removed.
    Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Brian Deese had made a similar point: industrial strategy is a venerable American tradition, going back to the days of the Erie Canal, one that was forgotten for a few decades, with terrible effects, and is now being revived.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

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