idolize

Example Sentences

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His path to this moment began with a Japanese TV show he watched as a child, featuring a charismatic violinist-pianist he quickly came to idolize.

From Los Angeles Times

But as Cohen’s legal bills piled up, officials at the family-run Trump Organization began to balk at paying his lawyer, planting the seeds for Cohen’s break from a man he once idolized.

From Seattle Times

I was the youngest cast member, and I cried in rehearsals every single day because I could not believe that I was onstage with “In the Heights” actors I had idolized.

From New York Times

She works with some of the forecasters whom she had idolized after seeing their names on watches and outlooks in the late ’90s.

From New York Times

Nowadays, I am — hopefully and God-willingly — on a trajectory that could place me competing against the men that I grew up idolizing on Saturdays and Sundays, and that potential drives me every single day.

From Seattle Times