Sentences with honor
hon·or
H h - To honor a check
- To honor a treaty obligation
- It was an honor to be invited.
- The building was named in honor of the city's founder.
- A store that honors most credit cards
- honor roll
- The team brought honor to the school.
- The maids of honor dipped again to pick up the train.
- To conduct oneself with honor
- The great honor of the presidency
- Honor, as compared here, implies popular acknowledgment of a person's right to great respect as well as any expression of such respect [in honor of the martyred dead]; homage suggests great esteem shown in praise, tributes, or obeisance [to pay homage to the genius of Milton]; reverence implies deep respect together with love [he held her memory in reverence]; deference suggests a display of courteous regard for a superior, or for one to whom respect is due, by yielding to the person's status, claims, or wishes [in deference to his age]
- May I have the honor of this dance?
- Buried with full military honors
- Honors English
- A man of honor.
- To be an honor to one's family.
- To be held in honor.
- A memorial in honor of the dead.
- He has earned his position of honor.
- To have the honor of serving on a prize jury; I have the honor of introducing this evening's speaker.
- Political honors; military honors.
- To honor one's parents.
- The university honored him with its leadership award.
- To honor an invitation.
- All credit cards are honored here.
- West Point cadets are on their honor not to cheat on an exam.
- Such good students would do honor to any teacher.
- Father did the honors at the family Thanksgiving dinner.