Sentence examples for ultimate honour from inspiring English sources

It is the ultimate honour for a referee.

Leading your country in international competition is the ultimate honour for any player.

It was a young man's ultimate honour to be regarded as a "son of Ben".

This is the first time a Japanese product has been awarded the ultimate honour, the company said, in the 15th year of the event.

But being a "goodie goodie" and heading up the Green Cross Code campaign, helping to save thousands of lives has always been the ultimate honour.

Given my background in that area, winning the MacRobert Award was the ultimate honour – I can only hope that my invention has a similar impact to Hounsfield's.

The 32-year-old called the honour the "ultimate accolade", adding he felt it was acknowledgment not only of his achievements in 2012 but over the past 12 years.

"That, I think, and the sight of Eric Hobsbawm, lifelong supporter of the Soviet Union, accepting the ultimate establishment honour, the Companion of Honour, did it…" he says, with a glum laugh (not for nothing did Scruton once write a book called The Uses of Pessimism).

I couldn't have handed Australia's ultimate individual honour to a more capable and deserving man.

The West German chancellor Willy Brandt received the Nobel peace prize for his part in ending the cold war, and this year gains what is perhaps the ultimate modern accolade: an airport named in his honour.

Thus the ultimate hipster badge of honour – a brew so exclusive it has your own name on it – is within reach.