ESTEEM in a Sentence

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90 example sentences for ESTEEM, such as:

1. No one esteems your father more than I do.
2. I needed to do it for my own personal esteem.
3. I esteem it an honour to attend this meeting.
4. Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you.
5. The old professor was greatly loved and esteemed.

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 Meanings and Examples of ESTEEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
esteem
 v.  regard with respect; favorable regard
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  She valued his esteem, she coveted his respect, she wanted to be worthy of his friendship, and just when the wish was sincerest, she came near to losing everything.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
2  This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  I do not know whether I ever before mentioned to you my feelings on this subject; but I will not leave the country without confiding them, and I trust you will not esteem them unreasonable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  But if I go on, I shall displease you by saying what I think of persons you esteem.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42
6  But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
7  If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46
8  She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
9  He had done all this for a girl whom he could neither regard nor esteem.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
10  Elizabeth had the satisfaction of seeing her father taking pains to get acquainted with him; and Mr. Bennet soon assured her that he was rising every hour in his esteem.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59
11  Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
13  Moreover, the cat so despised by Count Angles possessed the esteem of the republics of old.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
14  Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
15  He had composed and published a Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable measure of esteem and which sold well.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
Example Sentence:
1  Please accept this small gift as a token of our esteem.
2  I esteem it as a privilege to attend this meeting and give a report here.
3  I esteem it an honour to attend this meeting.
4  There has been a drop in public esteem for teachers.
5  I esteem your uncle for his kindness, experience, and honesty.
6  The veteran workers and model workers are held in great esteem.
7  I needed to do it for my own personal esteem.
8  Jill and sisters esteem Jack's taste in music, but they deplore his taste in clothes.
9  The art of conversation is highly esteemed in France.
10  It is indeed an honour to serve my country in such an esteemed position.
11  The old professor was greatly loved and esteemed.
12  No one esteems your father more than I do.