Example Sentences

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The match between Williams and Stephens had been variously billed as a clash between patron and protégé, hero and hero-worshipper and even queen and pretender to the throne.

From Reuters • Jan. 23, 2013

The usual put-down is to call Callow a hero-worshipper.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2010

He does not attach himself to individual men,—he is no hero-worshipper.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

He is a hero-worshipper, and he says Bernhard is the greatest man living.'

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von

From a mocker, the child had been temporarily transformed into an unwilling hero-worshipper.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold