idol

Example Sentences

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The 20-year-old, one of many players who counts Djokovic as his idol, wrote "Nole it was a pleasure" on the camera lens after the match.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

"Let me say this plainly: this is not a golden calf," he said later that night on X, referring to the Old Testament idol that famously made Moses irate after he received the Commandments.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

And in a culture so hellbent on idol worship and exhausting discourse, where every blemish is smoothed out or screamed at, “SNL” still offers us something scrappy and unvarnished.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Besides some streamer vlogs in the area, no formal article or website has ever recognized the elderly man as an idol.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Qendrim Bushi’s soccer idol was his grandfather, once a famous goalkeeper at the highest level of play in Kosovo, and later, a well-known referee and the author of an Albanian-language soccer rule book.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John