hero's welcome
Example Sentences
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Instead of getting a hero’s welcome in Tokyo, she spent years being dismissed like a hippie pariah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Stephen, a 32-year-old cyber security consultant, will also get a hero's welcome in Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
"It was so heart-warming," she said of the hero's welcome she received all week.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
Nowhere, perhaps, was the hero’s welcome as warm as in Hampton Roads.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
