lionize

Example Sentences

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Los Angeles educators were also directed to immediately shift from lionizing Chávez to honoring instead the farmworkers’ movement.

From Los Angeles Times

In his first days at home, Elisha found himself lionized in the papers as an American superhero, and in a serious fight with his family.

From Literature

MacArthur Park is L.A.’s Gloria Swanson — a place long lionized as a former jewel supposedly ruined by waves of newcomers and apathetic politicians.

From Los Angeles Times

Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.

From Salon

Wakanda is mythical, but it lacks the problematic history rewrite required to make the forthcoming Viola Davis-starring “The Woman King” and its lionizing of a kingdom built on the slave trade palatable.

From Salon