had canonized
- past perfect of canonize.
Example Sentences
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In Savage’s view, forty-something rock critics had canonized a bygone notion of “indie” that was never all that relevant to him.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2017
After the address, Francis walked through the Capitol’s second floor to Statuary Hall and paused at the statue of Junípero Serra, the California missionary whom he had canonized on Wednesday.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2015
Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"And only this afternoon you were saying you had become reconciled to my vice—that you had canonized it along with me—wasn't that your phrase?"
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham
