lionize

Example Sentences

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There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

It refuses to lionize Logan, but it's still a tough act to follow.

From Salon • May 22, 2023

His character — only referred to as Nitram, so as not to lionize the actual shooter, who remains in prison — plods through the movie like an intimidatingly oversized child.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

The library says it will humanize Roosevelt, not lionize him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022

Just as Reginald was finishing his prize poem, Scott was on a tour through England, and breakfasted at Richard Heber’s rooms at Oxford, when on the way to lionize Blenheim. 

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