honors

Example Sentences

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In so doing, she honors Ma’s own efforts toward humanitarian and environmental causes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The dinosaur's name honors the traditions of the Aonikenk people, the southernmost group of the Indigenous Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

That isn’t the purpose of such worldly honors, healing wounds, but I suspect it’s often an effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Among his other honors were the 2007 Polar Music Prize, the Kennedy Center Honors and a National Medal of Arts from President Obama in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Kimberly is talking about how she got moved into the honors math class and how next year in high school she’s going to be ahead of all the other ninth-graders.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass