How to Use coronate in a Sentence

coronate

verb

• The great Week 1 win over the Pats led pundits to coronate K.C. as the league’s best team.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• And after she was coronated in 1953, the Queen's schedule became even more hectic.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2019
• The one expression of caution the day Irving was coronated on Causeway Street came from Stevens, who cautioned there was a lot of work ahead.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• Criticisms of Cuomo, particularly of his plan to make cuts to Medicaid in an effort to trim the state’s budget deficit, have failed to break through the rush to coronate him.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2020
• The Wildcats’ 79–62 win coronated both this year’s champion and the sport’s newest royalty.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Also, when the vote counts in states are extremely close, TV networks and news agencies, in a race to be first, should not take it upon themselves to coronate winners, while hundreds of thousands of votes have yet to be counted.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2020
• Many are upset that Whitmer hasn’t yet been coronated by some influential Democrats still in the hunt for a candidate — which these critics attribute to sexism.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2018
• That goal was accelerated last week, when Nix was coronated as the Tigers’ starting quarterback for their season opener.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2019
• Over one year later, Elizabeth was coronated and officially was recognized as the Queen of England.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2019
• Then again, having a single Democratic frontrunner in 2016, who was effectively coronated as the party’s nominee from the beginning, also turned out to be trouble.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 24 Feb. 2017
• Both children will likely inherit new titles when Charles is officially coronated, becoming Prince and Princess.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
• The 2020 Democratic National Convention could dramatically change the way parties coronate their presidential picks in the future — if organizers can pull it off.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2020
• But some conservatives are crying foul, accusing the leadership of moving too quickly to coronate a lawmaker who, despite her support for Trump, has a relatively moderate voting record — in contrast to Cheney’s consistently conservative record.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024