How to Use coronate in a Sentence

coronate

verb
  • Swan, duck, coronate and other shapes are available for those looking for something with a little more flair.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And after she was coronated in 1953, the Queen's schedule became even more hectic.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Is our state in better shape today than when Newsom was first coronated in Sacramento back in 2011?
    — Brian Jones, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • He was later coronated on May 6, 2023, at which time his wife became Queen Camilla.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The Aces will coronate Saturday with a championship ring ceremony.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • That goal was accelerated last week, when Nix was coronated as the Tigers’ starting quarterback for their season opener.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The one expression of caution the day Irving was coronated on Causeway Street came from Stevens, who cautioned there was a lot of work ahead.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • The Wildcats’ 79–62 win coronated both this year’s champion and the sport’s newest royalty.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Many are upset that Whitmer hasn’t yet been coronated by some influential Democrats still in the hunt for a candidate — which these critics attribute to sexism.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Criticisms of Cuomo, particularly of his plan to make cuts to Medicaid in an effort to trim the state’s budget deficit, have failed to break through the rush to coronate him.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Over one year later, Elizabeth was coronated and officially was recognized as the Queen of England.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Both children will likely inherit new titles when Charles is officially coronated, becoming Prince and Princess.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Also, when the vote counts in states are extremely close, TV networks and news agencies, in a race to be first, should not take it upon themselves to coronate winners, while hundreds of thousands of votes have yet to be counted.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Then again, having a single Democratic frontrunner in 2016, who was effectively coronated as the party’s nominee from the beginning, also turned out to be trouble.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The 2020 Democratic National Convention could dramatically change the way parties coronate their presidential picks in the future — if organizers can pull it off.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2020
  • As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation from office, a faction within his own political party was already planning to coronate a successor who was elected back to Parliament less than a week ago.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2026

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