homage
Example Sentences
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American leaders usually take that moment of deserved honor and gratitude to pay homage to the dead and wax poetic about the values and the ideals for which they died.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Phrasing this homage with “we,” and not “I,” is telling.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Paying homage to both Harding’s experience as a pilot and the Bowl’s retro “No Fly” posters, the conductor received vintage poster prints with text requesting pilots not to fly over the venue during a concert.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
"To find a grounded, older version... an homage to all the noir movies of the past, it feels super exciting," he says.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing homage
A Christmas Carol
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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GRE Verbal Reasoning, List 1
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