Example Sentences

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Movie legend Tom Cruise and the player's pop star-turned-fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham will be at the ceremony on June 12 to unveil the plaque immortalizing the British midfielder on Hollywood's most famous thoroughfare.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The first one immortalizing the Lakers legend was unveiled last month outside Crypto.com Arena and it has three glaring typos.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Here is a fine time to confess that when Cupo slung his arm around my shoulders, jazzed to play his part in immortalizing this moment, I had no idea who he was.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

One wrote: “You have to take responsibility for immortalizing an idiot.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann