How to Use adulation in a Sentence

adulation

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  • The rugby player enjoyed the adulation of his fans.
  • When the Swiss retired there were mellifluous tributes, obituaries and a wave of adulation.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • In doing so, the 29-year-old Brazilian earned Ortega’s adulations.
    — Brian Martin, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There isn’t much out there to replace the roar and adulation of the crowd.
    — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The voice of grateful freedom is a stranger to the language of adulation.
    — Maysoon Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • Few achieve this kind of celebrity in life and adulation in death.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Bannon railed against them all, to adulation from the crowd.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Few animals in the U.S. draw as much adulation or ire as the gray wolf.
    — Christine Peterson, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Trump stood in the dark as the rain came down, basking for the moment in his movement’s adulation.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Might Trump have feared that he would be met with protests and then have to watch Obama bask in the adulation of much bigger crowds?
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Margaret Atwood, whose 1985 novel is the show’s source, stood onstage with the cast and crew to soak in the adulation.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Margaret Atwood, whose 1985 novel is the show's source, stood onstage with the cast and crew to soak in the adulation.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • His dad told him a long time ago that all of this is conditional, the fame and adulation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Her photo, in which her hair is still in rollers and her left eye is half-closed, was captioned as the response to the adulation.
    — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In La Toma, reached on a bumpy two-hour drive from the nearest major city, Márquez is a figure of adulation.
    — Patrick J. McDonnellforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Those fans yelled in adulation when the Knicks took the floor and led a chorus of jeers when the Nets entered through the opposite tunnel.
    — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
  • And still have a second left over to soak in the adulation of their adoring maintenance fans.
    — Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2018
  • Whether Fournette is worthy of such adulation will be a subject of much debate in the weeks to come.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Cade announced the launch of her archival website on Twitter last week, and the adulation has been fervent.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The last pair standing wins gold medals and global adulation.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • Country fans put him at the center of the genre — perhaps partly as protest — through sheer force of adulation.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Still, what Kenin missed about her golden season was the adulation it was supposed to bring.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Maybe the Cardinals were still thinking about that victory, Mack said at the time, and all the adulation that came with it.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Sitting next to his wife, Lorena, Platt didn’t seem to notice the adulation.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2021
  • Smart wondered aloud where all this adulation was 20 years ago.
    — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • The adulation, though, runs both ways, since Bay Area residents have always taken a shine to the genre.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In both adulation and disgust, the crowds ensnared him, baying for either a touch of their hero, or his blood.
    — SI.com, 12 June 2019
  • But in the minds of many baseball fans, Maris' mark is the untainted real record that deserves the most adulation.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Celebrities, who are just like us, seemed to be just as enthralled by the teen as the rest of us, with tweets of adulation pouring in after her win.
    — Natalie Maher, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The president traveled to Battle Creek, Mich., to bask in the adulation of his adoring fan base.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019

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