Sentence examples for stature from inspiring English sources

'stature' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person's physical height, a person's importance, or someone's standing in society. For example, "The singer's tall stature and powerful voice made for an impressive stage presence."

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stature

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A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.

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Xosar has risen in stature as a figurehead of a somewhat cosmic live hardware scene, self-releasing records with titles such as Psychick Justice, while simultaneously checking in with a plethora of tastemaker labels.

He had grown in stature over the campaign.

GQ and Glamour as we have produced both their men and women of the year awards since their inception, and seen them both grow massively in terms of stature and profile.

"He is a loss to the Liberal Democrats when we can ill afford to lose a man of that calibre and stature," he said.

More's description of him, laced with Tudor contempt for the physically imperfect – "little of stature, ill-fetured of limmes, croke-backed" – informed the lines Shakespeare gives to Queen Margaret, who calls him a "poisonous bunch back'd toad" and a "bottled spider".

McDonald's "dinosaur" culture may be to blame for its declining sales and waning stature, shareholders and corporate governance experts have warned, as a Guardian analysis revealed the extent of the company's tight-knit culture ahead of a tense meeting of the fast food giant's shareholders.

But although much has changed, "it is a similar policy in the sense that they are using military diplomacy once again in order to gain stature and influence in certain countries".

You could learn all this on Oink, which acted almost as a museum exhibit of Drake's critical afterlife, charting the repeated attempts to cash in on his growing critical and commercial stature.

"I'm absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to manage a club of the stature of Norwich," he told the club's website.

Although his acting skills are undisputed, Fiennes's second film as director, The Invisible Woman, will, I hear, establish him as a film-maker of considerable stature; Harris is already being talked of for Oscar nominations for her part as Winnie Mandela in A Long Walk to Freedom; and Whishaw, I hear, is outstanding in small British film, Lilting.

"When you think that we lost three players of the stature of Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Podolski for three months basically before the season really starts, it's very hard to take.

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