Ms. Dawson went on to say she was happy to lend her name and stature to a cause she believed in.

His addition to The Wilderness Society lent national stature to the group.

They were the assertions and major premises of a movement that employed them to lend stature to what otherwise could be considered a group of revolutionary bandits and terrorists.

Instead, she uses her uncanny physical resemblance to the large-framed, imposing Jordan as a means of lending power and stature to her performance.

It is his finer qualities of character, rather than his physical size, that lend Gulliver stature while he's in Lilliput.

It takes a mighty play like "Fences" to lend it stature.

On horseback, I was grand and high and important (in my mind's eye), lent stature and impressiveness by the horse that carried me.

Death often built legends, lent greater stature to mere men and granted them the immortality of public mythology.

The fact that other men in the bar were seeking out her company apparently lent him stature.

The fine points aside, stylish dressers have been prompt to note what their fathers knew instinctively: hats lend stature and authority to even the most modest turnout.