estimable

How to use estimable in a sentence

• Tucked somehow within his madhouse autumns as the estimable 11th-year Stanford football coach, Shaw got to observe in real time both Texas A&M 74, LSU 72, in seven overtimes, in 2018, and Illinois 20, Penn State 18, in nine overtimes, on Saturday.

  You might not like college football’s new overtime rules, but do you have a better plan? | Chuck Culpepper | October 28, 2021 | Washington Post

• Who we are is enough without commodities and other people, but in-group admission and approval — and the sense of safety and belonging that comes with it — feels like the estimable thing we need to gain in order to self-actualize.

  The great American cool | Safy-Hallan Farah | July 14, 2021 | Vox

• Now the estimable Cook Report has moved the race from Lean Republican to a Toss-Up.

  Mark Sanford Ditched by NRCC, but Counting Him Out Would Be Unwise | John Avlon | April 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• To save himself, Nixon nominated the estimable Elliot Richardson to be his new attorney general.

  How Kennedy Brought Down Nixon | Chris Matthews | September 13, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST

• He was a most estimable person, but he never ignored an opportunity to talk with a new and interesting woman.

  Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton