Sentence example with the word 'lionize'

lionize

adulate, belaud, brag about, deify, enthrone, glamorize, immortalize, overpraise, puff, salute, sight-see

Definition v. assign great social importance to

Last update: July 16, 2015


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The man we now lionize as a monetary magician began sensibly.   [verb]

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I owed my healthy, happy home of the next fourteen years in the wilderness to those marvellous habits, which I should else call absurd, with which we lionize strangers.   [verb]

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Those who have suffered unjustly are always lionized.   [Please select]

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1 lamb 6 large 3 lioness 10 lionized 1 lookout 1 majestic 1 majesty 3 mane 13 menagerie 5 mice 1 mighty 1 monkey 1 mouse 27 mule 1 N.   [Please select]

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"I am afraid you are trying to lionize me," he jested.   [Please select]

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He had been lionized in London, had spoken every night of his last month there, and had declined as many more invitations.   [Please select]

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I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.   [Please select]

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Like a human being who has been too much lionized, he suffers from the detractions which are excited by his pre-eminence.   [Please select]

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Mac did not want to be lionized and took it rather scornfully, which only added to the charm that people suddenly discovered about the nineteenth cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet.   [Please select]

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