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The crowd was adoring but constrained, said Michael Streissguth, author of “Johnny Cash: The Biography.”

From Washington Post • May 28, 2018

Every crowd was adoring; every stop promoted a worthy cause.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Evie, in a petticoat, was dancing with one of the Anglo-Indian ladies, while the other was adoring yards of white satin.

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

For numberless centuries the Egyptian had applied the title of “the one god” to the divinity he was adoring at the moment, or who presided over the fortunes of his city or nome.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)