C.B.E.
Americanabbreviation
abbreviation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But he has met her son, when Morgan was awarded a C.B.E., this year, for services to drama.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016
Alfred Hitchcock turned down a C.B.E. in 1962, but perhaps he was angling for something better — he was later made a Knight Commander of the British Empire.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012
In 2003, J. G. Ballard said he did not want a C.B.E. because the whole thing was a “preposterous charade.”
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012
Chin up, this singularly lovely woman, wife of smart Air Group-Captain Christopher Lloyd Courtney, C.B.E.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Crawford, C.B.E., was good enough to place at my disposal a very detailed account written by himself of the voyage of the Fanny, and the log kept by Captain Agnew.
From Ulster's Stand For Union by McNeill, Ronald John
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
