Sentence examples for a few lofty from inspiring English sources

In addition, some 200 warehouses (many of which are now private homes) remain from the 13th and 14th centuries, along with a few lofty merchants' houses.

To list only a few impediments to this lofty ideal, the Government discovered that it could not determine the full extent of the breast implant scandal because no one in this "Wild West" industry has kept a record of the ruptures.

The Athenaeum has more than a few Anglican bishops and lofty thinkers.

So let's take a few steps back from lofty legal talk of open justice and look at practical examples of what this is all about.

Giving New York's university system a few world-class campuses is a lofty idea.

Others are silly (occasionally on purpose), and a few do seem to touch the lofty and mysterious realms of the sexual imagination.

The three-year-old YouTube site probably crossed a billion views per day worldwide a few months ago, exceeding even the lofty expectations by Google when it made the acquisition.

"Well," she replied in her soft accented voice, and she took a few moments as if she were weighing some lofty thoughts, "I had the most perfect sleep.

The most recent was on 9 September 2016; just a few weeks ago and the day after Bashir's lofty proclamation.

And the orchestra shone again, with those remarkable strings upholding their lofty standard and the brasses — after a few early hitches — improving on their previous performances, in blazing climaxes.

Andrew Carnegie distributed branch libraries — raised like temples or courthouses a few steps above the street, with stony facades and lofty reading rooms — to serve the masses as silent palaces for public improvement.