How to Use repute in a Sentence

repute

1 of 2 verb
Definition of reputenext
Synonyms for reputenext
  • The midway was anchored by what was reputed to be the largest ballroom in the world.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2017
  • What Bismarck is reputed to have said about laws and sausages comes to mind.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 June 2019
  • Benjamin Franklin was reputed to be an addict in later life, as many were at the time.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
  • And, less than an hour from Glasgow city center, is the renowned Bruntsfield club, founded in 1761 and reputed to be the fourth oldest in the world.
    — Glasgow, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
  • Alger was reputed to gather the boys to him like the Pied Piper, giving them money and candy.
    — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Montgomery is reputed to have soared aloft as early as 1883.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Sharks were reputed to have changed their migration patterns to take advantage of the new source of food.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The source of all the bloodshed seemed obvious: Sylvester Zottola was reputed to have deep mob ties.
    — Tim Elfrink, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • The city’s Park Hyatt hovers at a price between those two, and is reputed as the most affordable hotel in the five-star chain.
    — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
  • It was filmed at Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a venue reputed to have paranormal events of its own.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • He is reputed for being the best answer to one of the greatest players ever in LeBron James.
    — Bay Area News Group, Orange County Register, 31 May 2017
  • Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, as the philosopher George Santayana is reputed to have said.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2019
  • Peer into the gaping Bocca della Verità, a sculpted mouth reputed to bite off the hand of anyone who doesn’t tell the truth.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Peer into the gaping Bocca della Verità, a sculpted mouth reputed to bite off the hand of anyone who doesn't tell the truth.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Known for mingling with A-listers and royalty, Mr. Tang was reputed to have the best address book in London.
    — Keith Bradsher and Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • They’re reputed to be the wildest of all birds, completely untameable.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Jesse, your book briefly touches on some of Bon’s reputed Southern rock friendships.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], AL.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Some of the actors from the film will be on hand for the festivities, and there will be tours of the reformatory, which is reputed to harbor ghosts.
    — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • Jaws reputed to exert as much as 600 pounds of pressure leave an impressive bruise.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Troxell and Yandell are reputed to be part of a three-man commission that runs the gang in California.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • David was also reputed to be a talented harpist and the author of many psalms, or devotional songs.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Southerners are expected to be kind and hospitable, and New Yorkers are reputed to be rude.
    — Los Angeles Times News Service, NOLA.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The Met happens to be the proud possessor of a superb sheet of studies in red chalk for the Libyan Sibyl, one of the five pagan prophets on the ceiling reputed to have foreseen the Messiah’s coming.
    — Catesby Leigh, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Method Man is a Pisces, a personality type reputed to have changeable moods, sleepy eyes, and baggy clothes.
    — Chris Norris, SPIN, 27 June 2023
  • It's reputed to have irregular opening hours, but Thursday to Sunday evenings seem a safe bet.
    — Emily Ding, CNN, 21 May 2017
  • The small community on the mountain is centered around a shrine honoring a saint reputed to cure mental illness.
    — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019
  • Price said Mesoraco could be saved for at-bats late in the game against high-end relievers, as Mesoraco has power and his reputed as a strong fastball hitter.
    — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Last Wednesday, Ford, which is reputed to have the best relationship with its workers, reached a tentative agreement to end the strike at its factories.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Maddon's reputed for his creativity, and the Cubs hardly seem likely to trot out the same eight position players for every game of the playoffs.
    — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
  • But the bank – which included a cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin on its board – was also reputed to be a major conduit for illegal cash flow.
    — Nick Holdsworth, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2017
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repute

2 of 2 noun
  • As of this writing, no free agent of repute has signed with a team.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Nov. 2017
  • While the robbers may not have seen the value in the boards, Goddard holds the game in high repute.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Before the Irish bar opened in 1910, the building was a blacksmiths - and house of ill repute.
    — cleveland.com, 6 July 2017
  • Dillinger lived large, spending money on cars, clothes and ladies of ill repute.
    — Neal Taflinger, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Windows put the tech Goliath on the map; cloud services and gaming have kept it in high repute.
    — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, it was considered a bastion of ill-repute.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Although Gstaad's repute may seem mythic, the hype is well deserved.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Polyphemus, then, means one much spoken of, someone of great repute.
    — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • For years, free-to-play mobile games have had a reputation of ill repute, and for good reason.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Ill repute and a whole lot of weird' The transformation of this corner of town is a two-edged sword for people who live and do business there.
    — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 14 May 2018
  • Arryk and Erryk find themselves in a house of ill repute where children as young as 10 are forced to grow their nails, file their teeth, and fight as drunken denizens cheer them on.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The temptation will be to go for a stellar name, a manager of the sort of standing and repute that will reassure the club’s bruised fans: someone like Rafael Benítez.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • By the time this photo was taken, the Horn Palace was a roadhouse of ill repute, mainly because of the reputation of its owner.
    — ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The idea of American exceptionalism has long been in ill repute among critics on the left.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
  • But perhaps more important, Ma came from a high caste family of good repute.
    — Moni Basu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Company members lived in what’s commonly believed to be a former house of ill repute, sharing the building with the painter Stephen Quiller’s gallery in the early 1970s.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The houses of ill repute are packed with loyal congregations.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • The Willis Show Bar originally opened in 1949 as an esteemed jazz club but slowly degraded into a den of ill repute over the course of its three decades in business.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Shough may not be the next Trubisky, but the Tar Heels did well to snatch a signal-caller of his repute amid overtures from several national powers.
    — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 4 July 2017
  • Albums of a such repute heralded a permanent shift in the calculus of pop power.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • The introduction of 2-year-old racing at Oaklawn last season added to the track's repute in that category.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But Curio has earned wide repute in turning the literary into the theatrical.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • Yet, some incidents have brought the entire game into repute and aren't likely to be forgotten anytime soon.
    — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • To be sure, art history is riddled with important figures of ill repute.
    — Robin Pogrebin and Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Traditionally, most of that malt has gone into blends of varying repute.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The exhibition displays three of the grand, full-length female portraits that wrongly cemented that repute.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • This isn’t because democratic values such as equality and freedom are in ill repute.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • These 25 selections were picked based on ease of use, brand repute, and ingredient quality.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2022
  • But as my colleague Bernhard Warner wrote in Fortune recently, activist shorts have recently gained wider repute on the strength of a number of prescient calls.
    — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Twenty-odd years ago the repute of the desk was so low in the business, the morale on the desk so depressed, that a series of leaders of the American Society of News Editors started looking for ways to improve the situation.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018

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