lionize

Example Sentences

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It's nice for people to support you, don't get me wrong, but we can't lionize people being in prison.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Teams are insular, us-against-the-world micro-communities, and American culture tends to lionize those who close off the rest of the world, ignore criticism and win anyway.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

His character — only referred to as Nitram, so as not to lionize the actual shooter, who remains in prison — plods through the movie like an intimidatingly oversized child.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Likely she hadn't understood him after all—he had only meant that he didn't want a mob of folks around making a fuss over him and trying to lionize him, as they had probably done over-harbour.

From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)