Example Sentences

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Boy Gru venerates these villains and wants to join them.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022

It evokes the ancient architectural construction known as a cenotaph — the cubic burial marker that remembers and venerates a missing body.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Some women said they also felt caught in a start-up ecosystem that venerates bold, disruptive businesses, with investors often forgiving those who bend the rules or who take shortcuts in pursuit of growth.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Xi wants to be both a visionary reformer who will secure the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people," and a virtuous traditionalist who venerates China's cultural heritage and studies the lessons of his imperial predecessors.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2021

Fiesole, in Tuscany, venerates two Irish eighth-century saints, Donatus and Andrew.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.