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

The peasants had canonized him already a hundred years before the sanctity of his work was officially recognized at Rome.

From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr