revere
Example Sentences
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Not since “The Importance of Being Earnest,” a play that Stoppard revered the way a mathematician would regard the world’s most elegant proof, has the English stage experienced such high-flying chat.
From Los Angeles Times
Fred dreams of beating his annual sales goal and earning a trip to Palm Springs, Calif., a place he reveres “the way others may have felt about Canterbury or Jerusalem or Mecca.”
This fits with our knowledge of the land of the pharaohs as a society that revered cats, immortalising them in art and preserving them as mummies.
From BBC
Garbage singer Shirley Manson described Hogg as "our revered Scottish fashion queen".
From BBC
The band’s lesser-known but critically revered Britpop peers Pulp released an excellent new record, its first studio offering in nearly 25 years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.