stature
IPA: stˈætʃɝ
noun
- A person or animal's natural height when standing upright.
- Respect (social standing) coming from achievement or development.
- (obsolete) Statue.
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Examples of "stature" in Sentences
- This is the current stature of the website.
- He is always prideful of his stature in the game.
- He was of great stature, strong, swarthy and hairy.
- As the distillery grew, so too did the stature of the family.
- The book has grown appreciably in stature in literary circles.
- Short stature can be inherited without any coexisting disease.
- In the center of the high altar is the namesake Marian stature.
- Changes in the last 10 years raised the stature of the college.
- Its good to know someone of your stature is a heartful journalsit!
- I think that might broaden the international stature of the compendium.
- He has the game, the stature, the ability, the talent, to be a dominant force.
- Hemight not succeed, but he's facing up tothe problems and growing in stature all the time in doing so.
- My experience is that smaller in stature types revert to batons and CS far quicker than those that have stature.
- I doubt such a drop in stature by itself will accrue to the benefit of most Americans, although, being an optimist, I believe Americans will nonetheless live better than they do today.
- Who knows, given the impending collapse of the dollar (with its future value ranking somewhere below Monopoly [TM] money), the currencies of Armenia and the Ukraine just might rise in stature sufficiently to enable the birth of such entities.
- The murders are garish and gruesome, as Vail investigates the crime scene of each victim, until an important person of stature is horrifically murdered, changing the whole profile of the killer, but also presenting some terrifying links to Vail herself.