Cynosures [noun]

Definition of Cynosures:

outstanding example

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Sentence/Example of Cynosures:

As the pairs gradually dropped out, Haggard and his partner became the cynosure of every eye.

The cynosure of the inner circle is personal piety, combined with a “penny a week and a shilling a quarter.”

No one else could sit at such perfect ease, the cynosure of so many eyes.

This, naturally, greatly increased our comfort, since we became at once the cynosure (as the learned would say) of every eye.

They were the cynosure of the entire room as they went up the carpeted steps of the dais and knelt before the king.

He had seen her more than once at the receptions of Mrs. Neuchatel, where, as indeed in every place, she was the cynosure.

The two women came down the steps, the cynosure of a good many eyes, the two most beautiful women in the Casino.

She looked supremely beautiful that day, and was, as she deserved to be, the cynosure of all eyes.

Man no longer the centre and cynosure of creation, but, as it were, an insect crawling on the surface of this little speck!

For a few minutes he said nothing, watching in silence the proud beauty who was the cynosure of every eye on deck.