deify

Example Sentences

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In a 1942 essay, Hall wrote: “All followers who offer to adorn and deify their teachers set up a false condition. Human beings, experience has proved, make better humans than they do gods.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

And this should prompt us to re-examine the very idea of role models in sports — and reel in our natural instincts to deify men.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022

“We want to vilify people for transgressions and we deify sports heroes,” Abrams said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2022

We build monuments and deify leaders in an effort to transcend our mortality.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy