How to Use deify in a Sentence

deify

verb

• The people deified the emperor.
• Today, of course, the political wing once most likely to deify the FBI wants to defund it.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• For those of us who deify Penélope Cruz, the new film is a case of déjà vu.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
• The kind of work pitchers and three-point shooters do, and get deified for.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 12 June 2019
• In the fifteen years since his death, Bogle has been deified by the dancehall scene.
  — 1843, 16 Jan. 2020
• The show’s approach is to both deify and denigrate its subject – the people love Eva and Che rips her.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
• The fact that he has been deified by white America is not likely to change.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
• Which is harder in a way than just dying in the mountains and being deified.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• The hall was erected with the intent to venerate and deify, and the selections into it reflected the hubris of its creators.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Anyone with the will to correct this problem should not further deify those at the top, but strengthen and respect the less flamboyant levels of the system.
  — Douglas Board, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2021
• Hopefully, the effect of this marketing will be to deify Theron as an action hero, Stallone-style.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• Some even deify their leaders, or at least assert that they are divinely inspired.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• For centuries, the waterway — once even deified as the god Tiberinus — bolstered the city’s greatness.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
• They are usually deified men or women — glorified and righteous — like scripture out of a Holy Book.
  — Fariha Róisín, Teen Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
• Gandhi was suspicious of his followers’ attempts to deify him.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Hercules, for example, after a life as a mortal strongman, was deified on his funeral pyre.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• According to Reinhard, the children who served as sacrifices were in effect deified and worshipped as intermediaries to the gods.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• But, led by soulless politicians and pundits who deify Trump, a giant swath of this country excuses and admires what would have been disqualifying before his rise.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• The recent episode, however, is the first to involve GitHub, which makes a popular open-source software and has prided itself on a corporate culture that deifies programmers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• How does our sports-mad culture, which is only too eager to deify someone like Newman, keep itself from giving him tacit approval by not reprimanding him?
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Yet, oddly, the aftermath of the 2016 World Series title has been anything but idyllic for Maddon, doubted more than deified as a defending champion.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2017
• Confucius urged his followers not to have much to do with the gods; yet immediately after his death his followers deified him and today millions worship him.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• The path of reconstruction might have been less rocky if Americans had heeded some of his final words instead of deifying Lincoln or demanding retribution.
  — Jonathan Den Hartog, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Big city theater workers usually romanticize or even deify this culture — anything folkloric, really — far more than those living it day to day.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• From the Greek word apotheoun, meaning to make a god or to deify, apotheosis implies a polytheistic conception of gods while recognizing that some individuals straddle the boundary between gods and men.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• The films are vocally, deeply suspicious of government and authority, while also deifying super secret agents.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 13 Apr. 2017
• Some feminist scholars have objected to auteurism, partly because female directors have been so marginalized while male filmmakers have been deified.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• With the discipline now touted at the highest levels of government, Qian has been deified, with biographies, television segments, and symposiums regularly devoted to him.
  — Mara Hvistendahl, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• This suggestion will enrage Americans who deify their constitution.
  — Joe Mathews, Fortune, 4 July 2020
• Yesterday’s deified Roman emperor was today’s persona non grata.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024