Example Sentences

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While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nonetheless, while they were acclaiming Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery the horse of the year, Top Row went quietly about the business of winning races.

From Time Magazine Archive

All were acclaiming and praising him, and he passed up the great hall and made a reverence to the King, and he sat down at the King's footstool.

From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish

He had rushed to the Cæsar trying to protect him, when thousands on thousands of throats were acclaiming his name as future lord of Rome.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books. 

From Martin Eden by London, Jack