How to Use do the honors in a Sentence

do the honors

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  • The cloth was raised over the plaque again so the monarch could do the honors.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • If Swayman is in net at game’s end, then Ullmark comes out to do the honors.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Who should do the honors and headline the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show?
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Kanye appears bearing a black suitcase, but steps back to allow his ex-wife to kneel to the floor and do the honors.
    Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
  • That year, this girl helped to do the honors for Seattle Rowing Center.
    Gus Garcia-Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • When Summey's boyfriend Joseph fell ill, his brother Ronnie Parks stepped in to do the honors of providing the first dance of the night.
    Kevin Ellis, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Jonathan Allen created them for the first event; for Sunday, Malcolm-x Betts will do the honors.
    New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • Daughter India Rose, 10, was there too, helping her mom do the honors.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • Where tractors can’t go, horses or oxen might do the honors.
    Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 July 2022
  • Judith Sánchez Ruíz, a former company member, will do the honors.
    Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • It was decided that Dunaway would introduce the nominees and then Beatty would do the honors.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Céline Dion was set to do the honors last month, but the Canadian crooner was forced to postpone her residency due to severe muscle spasms.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The online shopping platform enlisted Christian Siriano, a longtime friend of Silverstone's, to do the honors of reimagining the iconic outfit.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Church policy previously allowed these lay leaders to do the honors for nonmembers.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • So who should do the honors of performing at his inauguration ceremony?
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2020

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