How to Use homage in a Sentence

homage

noun
  • The book is a deeply personal homage to her favorite city.
  • What does that kind of homage mean?
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This is my homage to you today!
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Hartman’s homages have been many.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026
  • This is a cheeky slasher homage and genre fans will lap it up.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
  • My red curry is an homage to my dad, who learned it from his mom.
    — Parnass Savang, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2020
  • That was my homage to the telephone in Heat.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The King homages hardly stop there.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026
  • And many of them pay homage with their work to the women who raised them.
    — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The first two pay homage to the horror films of the eras in which they’re set.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • Other works are an homage to my mother.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
  • The homage comes from a place of genuine respect.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Mitchell sees these overt homages as a form of transparency.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
  • That was an homage to Lino and my late husband who loved corn dogs.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The color is thought to be an homage to yes, the yellow brick road.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 23 May 2021
  • But this season, the homage goes deeper.
    — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s one more homage to Majors in one of the film’s wild fight scenes.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • This collection is not at all an homage to Cristóbal.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Their uniform is an homage to the epic last stand the guards once made to defend the pope.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • Her Gati is a globe-hopping homage to her travels.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The second book is really an homage to the first book.
    — Ramsen Shamon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Any vampire show, of course, both has to set its own rules and pay homage to the rules of the genre.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • Add an homage to Grandma to your table with this retro recipe.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
  • But that wasn't Meghan's only style homage to the people's princess.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This was a sad but well-intentioned homage to one of the best eating streets in the city.
    — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The red polka dots on a white background were meant to pay homage to Japan's flag.
    — Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
  • Next stop will be Paris in June, with an homage to Laporte.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, its name is an homage to the classic leporine book, with grassy notes a rabbit might adore.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And the Hail Clay style is a homage to his wife, Hailey.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Jeymes Samuel pays homage to the rich legacy of the Black cowboy.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2021

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