Definition: 1. Important or well known. 2. Easily seen. 3. Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention. 4. Conspicuous in position or importance.
Use 'prominent' in a sentence:
1. She is a prominent Tory right-winger.
2. He went on to earn a prominent professorial position.
3. A prominent reason public schools did well was that many highly qualified woman had few options for working outside the house other than being teachers or nurses.
4. some of the prominent townsfolk of the 1860s.
5. Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy NO.1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.
6. He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones.
7. He has been a prominent victim of alleged witch-hunts against whistle-blowers in the NHS.
8. The fact that AFL outsiders such as the AALL had taken the most prominent advocacy roles antagonized Gompers.
9. Sleep disorders4 and insufficient5 sleeping hours have become more prominent in China in recent years.
10. It is the most prominent example of a huge new "sharing economy", in which people rent beds, cars, boats and other assets directly from each other, coordinated via the internet.
11. Because the subject matter was so personal, the work of several prominent mid-twentieth century poets has been termed "confessional" poetry.
12. When our ancestors drew humans, they would often draw them as stick figures, but if they drew a face, then the eyes were almost always very prominent—very open and wide.
13. At greater epicentral distances the Rayleigh waves become very prominent.
14. Political trials were being used to keep prominent activists out of circulation.
15. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
16. The very weekend of publication, a terrible vengeance was visited upon me: not one but two large, painful and mercilessly prominent carbuncles.
17. The newspapers gave prominent coverage to the news.
18. For example, prominent business journals often remark on the "high" cost of German labor, citing as evidence the average amount paid to German workers.
19. He is prominent in science.
20. His stomach had grown more prominent with every passing year.
21. American families and prominent business leaders are aware that there's a big problem with automation.
22. Eugene Delacroix was the most prominent of the French artists who welcomed photography as help-mate but recognized its limitations.
23. Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armoury in the future.
24. A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs in that ladder have grown farther apart.
25. A prominent reason public schools did well was that many highly qualified women had few options for working outside the house other than being teachers or nurses.
26. Under this background, the issue of economic discrimination caused by the gap between rich and poor is particularly sensitive and prominent in china.
27. The department has many prominent alumni.
28. Almost all anthropological schools and prominent anthropologists have left their research achievements in the field of mythological studies.
29. He was fascinated by her physiognomy — the prominent nose, brooding eyes and thick hair.
30. It's particularly striking centuries later when these issues are still prominent in public discussions about social justice and women's rights.
31. In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend.
32. Note the statue to Sallustio Bandini, a prominent Sienese.
33. So we have been fairly thorough in our discussion about coral reefs, which of course are prominent, oceanic features made of hard limestone skeletons produced by tiny coral animals.
34. One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory.
35. The Catholic Church has played a prominent role throughout Polish history.
36. It is rare to find a prominent politician with few political enemies.
37. Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No.1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.
38. The brown rat has prominent ears and a long scaly tail.
39. He played a prominent part in the campaign.
40. The most prominent poets of the Victorian period had all but faded from the scene.
41. Here the window plays a prominent part in the design.
42. Another prominent feature of Mars's surface is cratering.
43. The story was given a prominent position on the front page.
44. The church tower was a prominent feature in the landscape.
45. Among the commission's 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism.
46. Each year they compete in a prominent statewide bicycle race.
47. One of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount.
48. She was prominent in the fashion industry.
49. In gardens, cankers are most prominent on apples and pear trees.
