How to Use venerate in a Sentence

venerate

verb
  • She is venerated as a saint.
  • No one comes to the medieval wing to venerate the saints in the icons.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Once killed out of fear of the evil eye, they’re now venerated.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • If a woman is to be venerated, she must first be unsexed, her look made blank.
    — Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
  • Lee’s tomb, a place of pilgrimage for some who venerate that cause, is on the campus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
  • In venerating them, courtiers paid homage to lives lived, complete with honors and tragedies.
    — Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
  • They were venerated as their tribes’ leaders.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Catholics may venerate saints and ask them to intercede with God on their behalf.
    — Bridget Retzloff, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • Du Bois is rightly still venerated for his work on civil rights.
    — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The tenacious point guard is venerated by Celtics fans for his hard-nosed play and hustle.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • In a work where words are venerated, the declaration grabs your breath.
    — Lee Williams | Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 15 May 2017
  • The same gospel, venerated with incense, will now be chanted in Greek.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 18 May 2025
  • The deepest malice for mankind causes one to venerate Hitler.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Others came to venerate the teacher, prostrating at his feet.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 23 July 2019
  • The site is retired from active worship but still venerated.
    — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The word is divine; God is best worshipped by venerating his language.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Rice isn't just the mainstay of most meals, it is considered a gift from the gods and continues to be venerated.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Every day, the whole world seems to venerate mothers, but for you, Mother’s Day is the worst.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • In a culture where age is venerated, the banyan is the oldest living thing most people will encounter here.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Christians should venerate relics, Aquinas says, because the saints’ bodies were dwelled in by God.
    — Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Democrats don’t venerate every protest, as a Canadian trucker could tell you.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 13 June 2025
  • In ancient Greece certain mortals who had achieved kleos (glory or fame) in life were venerated in death.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • For those who venerate one of the world’s best investors, money is usually no object when buying a piece of the legend.
    — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The prisoners’ remains were burned to ashes and scattered at sea to prevent the crowd from venerating them as relics.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The researchers suggest the beer remnants found there may have come from funerary rituals to venerate the dead.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2019
  • Zed noted that cows are sacred in Hinduism and have long been venerated by Hindus.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And the qualities that once stigmatized the sport are now venerated by the White House.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • The people would create saints out of their ancestors and venerate them under the disguise of religion.
    — Damien Scott, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
  • And what is written is that the venerable and venerated 911 is in the twilight of its years.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Most Wiccans venerate a goddess and a god as equal, although for some the goddess is given greater importance.
    — Helen A. Berger, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020

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