hero's welcome
Example Sentences
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When Khomeini returned from exile in Paris in February 1979, he received a hero’s welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Despite medics thinking the 56-year-old would almost certainly die, she left Ward 9 at Moseley Hall in Birmingham on Wednesday, receiving a hero's welcome from her family in Penn, on the Wolverhampton/Staffordshire border.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
"It was so heart-warming," she said of the hero's welcome she received all week.
From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026
Then, on Wednesday morning, he got his hero’s welcome at the Raising Cane’s event, with fans lining up along Sunset two hours before his appearance with signs and posters ready in hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
She practiced her smile and her nod and her wave—one-hand, two-hand—to the adoring mob at her hero’s welcome.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
