lionize
Example Sentences
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There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
It refuses to lionize Logan, but it's still a tough act to follow.
From Salon • May 22, 2023
His character — only referred to as Nitram, so as not to lionize the actual shooter, who remains in prison — plods through the movie like an intimidatingly oversized child.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
The question remains, however, how long she can sustain the delicate balance in a nation notoriously demanding over the loyalties of those whom it chooses to lionize.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
Likely she hadn't understood him after all—he had only meant that he didn't want a mob of folks around making a fuss over him and trying to lionize him, as they had probably done over-harbour.
From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Vocabulary lists containing lionize
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