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
“There is a prevailing narrative in the public mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as having a defining impact on certain conflicts,” he said, but “the reality is often more complex.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022
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
I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.
From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Vocabulary lists containing lionize
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