adulate

Example Sentences

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They use poetic, romantic language to adulate this criterion lota and refuse to use any other instrument, similar to seniors who reject CDs and insist that “everything sounds better on vinyl.”

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2012

Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar?

From Time Magazine Archive

There must be villains and heroes, nations to hate or to adulate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men were absorbed in passing events; and literary men generally pandered to the vile taste of the people, or stooped to adulate the monsters whom they feared.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

But I came not to adulate: Your frankness I shall compensate By an avowal just as plain.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry