How to Use laudatory in a Sentence

laudatory

adjective
  • The play received mostly laudatory reviews.
  • The impulse to cater to such instincts is laudatory and a little beside the point.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But that body of opinion is itself too laudatory toward the central bank.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Local press for the Amon Carter show had likewise been laudatory.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To be sure, reducing mental health stigma at work is laudatory.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • In fact, many of the employees had received laudatory reviews with no hint of any concerns.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Hendershott was an old-school gentleman in all the good and laudatory ways that implies.
    — OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Local reviews have been laudatory, and her voice sounds as powerful and assured as ever.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • The post-premiere reactions were nothing short of laudatory.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Trump offered laudatory remarks about Manning but did not mention her students or refugees.
    — Allie Malloy, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • More than $2 million has been spent on attack ads, laudatory pieces and the occasional misstep in this race.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • There have been laudatory films made on Khabar Lahariya in the past, Meera Devi said.
    — Nandini Ramnath, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The answers range from laudatory to disparaging, depending on which experts are asked.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • Not everyone is as laudatory of the president’s age and mental acuity.
    — Linda Marx, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • Maybe that’s why such announcements can’t help but feel a little self-laudatory, like those holiday letters people used to send.
    — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Others wrote to her about the piece, too—letters at turns laudatory and scathing, supportive and sexist, and sometimes moving.
    — The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • After dinner and words from laudatory speakers, Uncle Ken was asked to add his story.
    — Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Altman’s blog generated a lot of attention, some of it laudatory, much of it critical.
    — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The response to Biles’s candor has been mostly laudatory, an indicator of the waning hold of sports’ win-at-all-costs ethos.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • But as the home’s superstructure emerged, so have neighbors’ opinions — both laudatory and critical.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • His 2007 feature, My Winnipeg, was seen as a laudatory and mocking ode to his hometown.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • So obviously there was the Doja Cat clip that went viral, and then there have been other prominent acts who have been laudatory of y’all.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Auburn coach Bryan Harsin was even laudatory of Joseph following the team’s first scrimmage on Saturday.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Still, Turley received a copy of a laudatory video that would have been shared at the retirement gala as well as scores of accolades from friends, colleagues and admirers.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2020
  • The laudatory tone of this well-meaning, inspirational effort is so extreme that even Frank Capra might have dismissed it as being too good to be true.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2017
  • Leaders point to dramatic shutdown and mass quarantine measures taken in China in laudatory terms—as evidence that lives can be saved, and this is how.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The State Department noted both issues in a more cautious, less laudatory statement issued a few hours earlier.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Apr. 2017
  • The guest list and laudatory tone were set; the protocol and the videos narrated by Queen Latifah and Oprah Winfrey were in place.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Given the opportunity to press their luck, the Europeans instead decided to push laudatory comments that would not draw any backlash.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Americans may balk at the idea that reaching 2 percent spending on NATO defense counts as a laudatory achievement.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 27 May 2017

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