Example Sentences

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Their idols have become their guests: Clarkson talked about starting antidepressants while going through a divorce.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

But it was only 15 years later that such works, satirising one of China's most contentious idols, cost Gao Zhen his freedom.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

The young filmmaker, who counts "One Battle After Another" director Paul Thomas Anderson among his idols, said the isolation and missed opportunities that technology imposes on men in particular was something he wanted to examine.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Flesh-and-blood idols almost always fall short of our expectations.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald