Sentence examples for were honor from inspiring English sources
noun
Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright and/or competent).
- The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
Even more important to Jackson were honor and military glory.
In cemeteries and at other sites there were honor guards, rifle salutes and speeches to remember those who died in the nation's wars.
There were honor guards from the police and the fire departments, flyovers by planes and helicopters, 21-gun salutes and fans dressed in red, white and blue.
Whether they were honor students, top athletes or free spirits, all of these "homegrown" teachers interviewed acknowledged a tremendous affection for the schools they once attended.
In his novel "Shame," he had written about the workings of Muslim "honor culture," at the poles of whose moral axis were honor and shame, very different from the Christian narrative of guilt and redemption.
Many of the children on the plane were honor students, said Khalyaf K. Ishmuratov, the deputy prime minister who will accompany 140 people, most of them family members, on a flight to Germany.
We were honored to be asked.
We were honored to be his friend.
Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Robert E. Rubin were honored.
But the propagandists' main goal was to convince the world that President Saakashvili had provoked the Russian action with a gratuitous Georgian assault on Tskhinvali followed by a "genocide" against the locals who the Russians were honor-bound to defend.
