lionize

Example Sentences

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It's nice for people to support you, don't get me wrong, but we can't lionize people being in prison.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

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

Teams are insular, us-against-the-world micro-communities, and American culture tends to lionize those who close off the rest of the world, ignore criticism and win anyway.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

Russia loves to lionize its literary giants, but even the mighty Russian state could not open a museum in a shared apartment with other residents still ensconced in it.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021

So ready as he was to challenge anything which smacked of conventionality or pretension, he was not quite a safe poet to lionize or to ask into mixed company.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry