Sentence examples for dignified on from inspiring English sources

At Penn State, Brown quickly became the favorite of the coaching staff because he fit into Paterno's philosophy that players should always be dignified on the field.

There was Bob Sheppard, managing to sound dignified on his 50th opening day despite the witless sound effects blasting from the loudspeaker.

I tend, when feeling poor, to want to live as if — as Elizabeth Gaskell put it in her novel "Cranford" (1851) — "economy was always 'elegant,' and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious.' " To behave like a duck, that is: dignified on the surface while pedaling away madly down below.

The post concluded, "Work for a whole year, stand in line for a whole day, buy a full-price ticket, wear diapers, stand the whole way home how dignified!" On the days that Han writes, he sleeps until midday and usually works—fast and alone into the pre-dawn hours.

Man slips on banana peel, going from upright and dignified one moment to lying on the ground the next.

David Cone, dignified out of the the bullpen.

Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron described the Comcast Center as "a respectable work of architecture" that was "dignified in its stance on the grid, generous in its relationship to the city, responsible in its treatment of the environment".

Frail and dignified at 88, the man leaned on his cane and smiled as the story of his immigration in 1936 flashed behind him on a museum wall.

The dignified judging is one of the best things about this show, whose third installment is on Wednesday night.

He was doomed to buckskin, reappearing in the '60s as Daniel Boone, but on him it was as dignified as a suit.

A1 The graves of people convicted as enemies of Saddam Hussein -- mostly Shiites -- were not dignified with names, but with numbers painted on metal plates.