preferment in a sentence

Examples

1. Neile made him his chaplain, and gave him several valuable preferments.
2. His preferments were numerous, but for many years not very lucrative.
3. It was believed that he owed his preferment to hardline Whig views.
4. At Elizabeth I's accession Marshall lost his preferments.
5. Pory gave up all his preferments about the same time.
6. Not receiving further church preferment, Bizzarri began to travel.
7. But, Gao gets a preferment for Guo s help.
8. However, a volume of poems dedicated to the king brought him preferment.
9. Cumberland's first preferment, bestowed upon him in 1658 by Stamford.
10. Lemass had to wait until his father retired as Taoiseach for political preferment.