paean
Example Sentences
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Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
He insisted that he was an independent artist, proving the point by providing decadent, images for an edition of Thomas Malory’s paean to heroic chivalry, “Le Morte d’Arthur.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
Merchan then cited Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent paean to the sanctity of judicial independence.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2025
The screen faded and was silent, followed by a clear, trilling whistle which swelled in a paean of lilting sound.
From Fly By Night by Savage, Arthur Dekker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
