deify

Example Sentences

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We build monuments and deify leaders in an effort to transcend our mortality.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

Why can’t Americans come to terms with our racist past without feeling compelled to demonize those we used to deify?

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2020

But something happens when women become superheroes in earnest, as though it’s impossible to deify them without the hallmark of traditional femininity, the comic equivalent of Breck Girls.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018

“I don’t attempt to deify or vilify anyone in the show. I just try to understand them,” Miranda said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2017

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy