How to Use veneration in a Sentence

veneration

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  • The start and end of the protest mark days of Catholic veneration.
    — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Monstrances are used for the veneration of hosts in the Catholic Church.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • The veneration of the rural class, and of the past, has now taken on a more ominous tone.
    — Doree Shafrir, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
  • The veneration of the rural class, and of the past, has now taken on a more ominous tone.
    — Doree Shafrir, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
  • There are grounds enough for veneration, and for hope, even now.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • And yet the scale of the veneration of the Ganges makes the Jordan seem trivial by comparison.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • The mystery only contributed to the veneration of Paine, adding to his cult the intrigue of relics.
    — D.g. Hart, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But O’Rourke sees no decline in the veneration that Texas feels for Nelson.
    — Alan Light, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • There are signs that uncritical veneration of tech founders is on the way out.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • But in many ways, her veneration for the book was merely a bonus on top of the project’s real draw: working with Campion.
    — Gabby Shacknai, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The veneration had something, or almost nothing at all, to do with the piano.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Across Arizona, and the U.S., her veneration is just as strong and involves more than just Mexicans.
    — Alfredo García, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The event that's the object of all this veneration was also shrouded in secrecy.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 29 June 2021
  • For reasons nobody at the cemetery or in the Catholic church can explain, Villars became the object of near-veneration — and still is.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
  • That veneration of the bipartisan process, even at the expense of his own bill, helps explain why — so far — Manchin has stuck with the filibuster rule.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • But this twisted veneration of the Spartan myth looms larger than just Leonidas’s single quote.
    — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • His about-face has been noted by, among others, Liz Cheney, who is soon to be sacrificed on the altar of Trump veneration.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
  • The Catholic veneration of saints who lived a life of monastic poverty is alien to this sensibility.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • After the war, Union veterans advocated for the display of the flag and for its veneration.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Fuji is a cultural symbol of Japan, as well as the subject of holy veneration in both Buddhist and Shinto sects.
    — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2021
  • But for now, Romney appears willing to revel solely in the veneration from his network, even if not from Trump's.
    — Theodore Schleifer, CNN, 10 June 2017
  • For them, these female goddesses were still awesome, in the Biblical sense of that term, worthy of fear and veneration alike.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • The veneration of relics isn’t a practice exclusive to Catholicism.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • To many Northumbrians over the centuries, the wall has been less an object of veneration than a handy source of building material, much of which ended up in the houses along the route.
    — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Even children were, and still can be, approved for saintly veneration.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Okamoto links this to the change in societal values that has taken place in Japan since its era of rapid economic growth ended, and with it the veneration of a win-at-all-costs mindset.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • Yet, as Mr Kurtz-Phelan makes clear, his embassy started in late 1945 in a mood of great optimism, founded largely on veneration of the man himself.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • Estranged from the Catholic Church, some Latinos turn to veneration of unofficial saints.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • Holmes’s dissent in Abrams gave birth to modern First Amendment jurisprudence, with its veneration for the marketplace of ideas.
    — Richard Dooling, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Some of his fans have been known to celebrate his new releases by pouring milk on cardboard images of the actor, an act of veneration usually reserved for Hindu deities.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023

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