idolized

Example Sentences

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Like many schoolboys, I idolized Indiana Jones and James Bond for all the usual reasons, not least their double lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

In a court brief, federal prosecutors allege the man who started the Palisades fire resented the rich and idolized Luigi Mangione.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Adam Lankford, a criminologist at the University of Alabama who has studied the global proliferation of mass shootings, said the internet gives broad access to online communities where mass shooters are idolized.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Yet Norris, who idolized John Wayne as a child, became an actor as an afterthought.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

She was about to meet the man they all idolized, the hero they learned about in history classes, whose proverbs they had memorized since nursery school.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat