eulogize
verb (used with object)
to praise highly.
had eulogized
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past perfectof eulogize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This wasn’t an entirely inappropriate or unexpected remark; Biden had eulogized South Carolina’s former Democratic governor and senator, who was his good friend, when he passed away in April.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 26, 2019
A few weeks earlier, Mr. Amis had eulogized his best friend, Christopher Hitchens, across the East River at a memorial service at Cooper Union in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012
For a nation of patriots, for the people whom Winston Churchill had eulogized as "that heroic race whose national spirit centuries of misfortune cannot quench," this was a tragic hour.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for M. Voline, he had merely represented M. Krassin at a memorial meeting for the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and had eulogized that dead leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
The window of the bedroom opened onto the wide roof which Uncle Chris had eulogized.
From The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
