How to Use lionize in a Sentence

lionize

verb
Definition of lionizenext
Synonyms for lionizenext
  • She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
  • The portrait of the bleary-eyed coach who sleeps in the office is lionized by many in the profession.
    — Kelly Whiteside, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The Jungle details, but doesn’t lionize, the origins of the camp.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2017
  • When Bruno emerged, he was lionized as a sort of Tarzan who fulfilled every white trope of the jungle man.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • They are lionized on social media for their readiness to to go and and fight the Israelis, their readiness to sort of stand up to the Israelis.
    — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And it is not heard nearly so often as those of some much less lionized composers.
    — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In other words: less like Trump and more like, well, the president the author lionizes throughout much of his book.
    — John Diaz, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2018
  • He has been lionized in the state news media as no other Chinese leader has been since Mao.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The culture is quick to lionize young Black men with fast feet or nimble hands but those with quick and creative minds too often have to slog it out in the shadows.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Bird has plenty to say about this world of heroes and villains, where the elite live in public as a separate sort of species, both lionized and feared.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2018
  • Others even lionized antifa, comparing them with the allied troops who fought the Nazis in the D-Day landings.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Trump has crossed a line from defending the Jan. 6 detainees to lionizing them.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The best riders were featured on cigarette packs and buttons and lionized in bike ad posters.
    — Todd Balf, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The cartoonists were lionized for their fearlessness in the face of terror.
    — Sarah Boxer, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • As for why Democrats, and some in Hollywood, are lionizing Kennedy?
    — Gregg Re, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But even as Uribe was lionized by millions in Colombia, his record on human rights was under fire.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • The once-anonymous Frank McCourt was now lionized by presidents and movie stars.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was an act of moral blackmail, and those who have lionized him want to see more such acts.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The press has done a better job of vetting these companies and founders’ claims as opposed to taking their word for it and lionizing them.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • Today, Kennedy is lionized by the left as a liberal giant.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • In the early 1990s, comics fandom culture had begun to lionize artists over writers.
    — Nola Pfau, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Inside the right-wing echo chamber, Bannon is lionized as a conquering folk hero.
    — Gabriel Sherman, The Hive, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In fact, as Doolittle points out, male reporters are often lionized when their stories are made into movies.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The hackers are arrested, lionized, and demonized by bloggers and the press.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Sign up The point is not to lionize Haley, whose timidity in the face of Trump has made a weather vane seem like a model of principled constancy.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some of those prisoners will seek to lionize her while others will attempt to exploit her, said Paperny.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The black press, eager to mark milestones by lionizing barrier breakers, splashed his face across front pages.
    — Emily Ludolph, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • The president’s delusions enabled him to lionize himself at the expense of logic and reason, the author says.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2018
  • D’Antoni lionizes his ballhandlers, and as Stoudemire would attest, abuses his big men.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • Lawler’s photographs can seem to swipe across, distort, or blur canonic artworks, questioning the systems and institutions that have lionized and valued them.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019

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