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Sentence count:251+21Posted:2016-10-03Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: dignityegotismself-esteemself-respectvanityAntonym: modestySimilar words: take pride inbrideriderride onside by sideridaridridgeMeaning: [praɪd]  n. 1. a feeling of self-respect and personal worth 2. satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements 3. the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards 4. a group of lions 5. unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins). v. be proud of. 
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(211) She was still young and in the pride of her beauty.
(212) The photo was given pride of place on the mantelpiece.
(213) Pride was his downfall.
(214) A portrait of the earl takes pride of place in the entrance hall.
(215) The futuristic sports stadium is the pride of the city.
(216) Being turned down for the job dented his pride quite badly.
(217) He was forced to swallow his pride and ask if he could have his old job back.
(218) She felt a glow of pride when her name was announced for the prize.
(219) He was stinging due to a severe hurt to his pride.
(220) The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
(221) The young man who said laboring was beneath his dignity finally put his pride in his pocket and got a job as a kitchen porter.
(222) A good share of the answer rested in the kind of pride that is stimulated by the job, by the activity of accomplishing.
(223) Abigail's mother Linda views her daughter's talent with a mixture of pride and worry.
(224) Pride has always been an important part of his make-up.
(225) I don't want your money?I have my pride, you know!
(226) The pride and joy of the town is the splendid castle.
(227) She will probably take great pride in wearing school uniform.
(228) She felt a thrill of pride as her son stepped forward.
(229) United lost 52, salvaging a little pride with two late goals.
(230) It was only wounded pride that stopped him from apologizing.
(231) It was foolish pride that prevented me from believing her.
(232) She wanted to tell him but pride held her back.
(233) Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson 
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(234) Pride is the mother of arrogance. Toba Beta 
(235) Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling 
(236) Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Benjamin Franklin 
(237) The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. Alexander Pope 
(238) You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. Amy Tan 
(239) All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is prideSophocles 
(240) The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler 
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