Example Sentences

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Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2024

“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2024

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2015

PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.

From Slate • May 6, 2015

Mr. Ripple himself is the smallest man in the Wells, but nobody esteems him the less for that.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton