How to Use encomium in a Sentence

encomium

noun
  • Such encomiums haven’t helped her popularity in her home state, though.
    — oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
  • Most of WristbandGuy’s, by contrast, were cheeky encomiums to the pleasures of jacking off with your friends.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This encomium was not one that Frankfurter received only posthumously.
    — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Critchley believes that music—any music, so long as one really loves it—can lead to mystical experience, and the end of his book is an encomium to punk rock.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Critchley believes that music—any music, so long as one really loves it—can lead to mystical experience, and the end of his book is an encomium to punk rock.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The encomiums his cheerleaders offer him, a veteran professional politician in a baggy suit, are as extreme as his ideas.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In this encomium to mindfulness, Wallace tells a tale of two fish swimming along, oblivious of the fact of water, the medium of their own existence.
    — Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The telegraph played a role in Chicago’s early development, notably the year before Medill’s encomium to Morse.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • More problematic are the amateurish musical choices and the breathless encomiums on the soundtrack.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Politics, even now, is about more than baubles and encomia, and in their obstinacy, most voters remain at least somewhat interested in the policies that each candidate brings to the feast.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 29 July 2024
  • Advertisement Many Dutch paintings are encomia to cities, particularly Delft, where so many of the greatest artists lived and worked.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Colleges and universities offer encomiums to free speech and inquiry, which the First Amendment protects, at least in theory, at public institutions.
    — Peter Berkowitz, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Comey’s congressional testimony, in 2007, about the confrontation raised his public profile, earning him encomiums from both parties.
    — Peter Elkind, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
  • Unlike conservative politicians in the United States, these foreign leaders don’t even need to bother with mouthing encomiums to concepts like tolerance, freedom, and democracy.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Yet a routine encomium to Lewis’s achievements and influence would ignore the import of his scholarly writings, which resist the usual narratives of individual genius.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In a fitting tribute, the shuffle of iconic characters that opens every Marvel movie here is composed entirely of images of Boseman, a moving encomium to a gifted and charismatic actor who left the stage much too soon.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
  • What Zagajewski had in mind, perhaps, is the encomium, praise as a classical enterprise—the verb alone intimates the mode of speech at the heart of the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy itself, tracing back to Plato and before.
    — Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Ralph Lauren is admired throughout the fashion industry as the quintessential American designer, and singer-songwriter John Legend’s success is evident from countless encomiums and a shelf full of awards.
    — Kristina O’Neill, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • In Italy, academics like Ettore Romagnoli organized an authoritarian spectacle to celebrate two millennia of Horace, the priest Vittorio Genovesi wrote encomiums to Italian imperial ambitions in Rome’s Mare Nostrum, and the Latinist Luigi Illuminati who penned an epic dedicated to Il Duce.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

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