How to Use idolatry in a Sentence

idolatry

noun
  • Another one that’s been on my mind a lot lately is the idolatry of tech people.
    — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • To love things is a kind of idolatry; to use people is to place ourselves at the center of the universe.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • These all may be interpreted as acts of idolatry.
    — Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In his work and in this film, Souza conflates idolatry with history.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2020
  • These are not poems of regional idolatry; these are poems which grapple with the world and man’s place within it.
    — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • Hyper-racial idolatry may be too competitive a field on the internet to cut through.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • This is idolatry, this willingness to blame God for the morally wrong choices of humans.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • After all, both were places of idolatry, and Abraham and Isaac were living in Canaan.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Beyond her racial idolatry, Hill has nothing of substance to add to the conversation.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026
  • Frankfurter simply could not stop himself from engaging in Holmes idolatry.
    — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The first and second game lambasted consumer culture, while the third game depicted the dangers of pop idolatry.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • The two groups displayed a large balloon near the mall of a Trump-like golden calf, a biblical reference to idolatry.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • Ultimately this phenomenon is a kind of idolatry, an attempt to be as God is.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Reflecting on these unforgiving fashion trends makes one wonder about the idolatry of youth in fashion.
    — Jess Sims, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
  • People begin drifting to certain games or consoles, staring intently at a wall of idolatry.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Puritan disgust with pagan idolatry was still alive in the 1770s.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • But because the Israelites atoned for their sin of idolatry, God forgave them and offered Moses a second set of tablets.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Might a new life, and a new identity, even be obtainable for Hazel, in a roundabout way, from the idolatry being showered on her sister?
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Jealousy, worship, idolatry, obsession, love, all these things can be the result of this kind of superpower that a character can have.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
  • American women glamorize French women to the point of idolatry.
    — Maura Walters, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Spencer itself is only a half-bad movie, promoting idolatry for a public that has lost respect for tradition and that has no sense of duty or sense of occasion.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Nov. 2021
  • As with any novel featuring a distant object of idolatry, this one succeeds only to the extent that Margo is worth getting to know.
    — Kaitlin Phillips, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • After all, her idolatry of Beyoncé on season 6 was ultimately a large part of her story arc.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • Two decades later, guitar music and rock and roll are still omnipresent, shapeshifting into new, subversive forms that can make Finn’s idolatry feel distant and dusty.
    — Luke Ottenhof, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Lutherans like Bach certainly would have condemned as a grievous sin of idolatry any notion that the essence of a piece of music is, or turns into, the essence of God.
    — Michael Marissen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The plaudits traveled past genuflecting and exited somewhere a couple of miles before idolatry.
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • In recent years, North Korean propaganda meant for foreign audiences has scaled back some of its idolatry.
    — Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
  • The rupture was provoked by papal rulings that ancestor worship and Confucian rites were pagan idolatry.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • And while idolatry is not a new concept, the unique ways in which our culture demands that celebrities be close to us—closer than ever before—is in desperate need of examination.
    — Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Simmons, in New York to promote this ultimate symbol of idolatry, suggests buying one now and setting it up as beer cooler until the time comes.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 June 2001

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