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
Glew himself, importantly, is never the target of the joke: the movie has too much affection for its subject to ridicule his eccentricities, even gently, preferring to lionize him instead.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
“There is a prevailing narrative in the public mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as having a defining impact on certain conflicts,” he said, but “the reality is often more complex.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022
"Of course, most of her social friends are away—in July; but Billy is never a society girl, you know, in spite of the way Society is always trying to lionize her and Bertram."
From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
Vocabulary lists containing lionize
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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