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

They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2023

Mr. Ostin’s unflagging support for artists led them to lionize him.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

I forget whether I told you that the Sedgwicks had sent me a friend of theirs, an American country clergyman, to lionize about London, which I have been doing   for the last three days.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny