adulation

Example Sentences

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Cricket does not enjoy the same adulation in Nepal as it does in neighbouring South Asian nations where the game dominates popular culture.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

So while he sorted through emotions and memories after the game, he basked in the adulation beforehand.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025

Her adulation of Herod, the assimilated Roman Jewish client-king of Judea, was contrary to most takes on him, certainly to the baby-Jesus-hunter of Matthew’s Gospel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

After about 36 hours of near-unanimous adulation for Allen and “West End Girl,” with everyone from your older sister to Gwyneth Paltrow posting praise for the album, the tides started to turn.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025

Vasiljevic, also applauding, looked at him approvingly and smiled; Bobby leaned back in his chair, swiveled back and forth, and smugly basked, Mussolini-like, in his courtiers’ adulation.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady