How to Use homage in a Sentence

homage

noun
  • The book is a deeply personal homage to her favorite city.
  • Each paid homage to the genre and put new twists on it.
    Emily Gaudette, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The first two pay homage to the horror films of the eras in which they’re set.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • The inner sleeve was my homage to Phil Ochs with the gun.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • And the main maze pays homage to the Monarch butterfly.
    Melanie Savage, courant.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Sure, the Brewers — and Miller Park — pay homage to beer.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019
  • And many of them pay homage with their work to the women who raised them.
    Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • There’s one more homage to Majors in one of the film’s wild fight scenes.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Pay homage to the epic 2011 draft class before it's gone.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The home's name was an homage to Swift's wife, Hortense.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Jeymes Samuel pays homage to the rich legacy of the Black cowboy.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The color is thought to be an homage to yes, the yellow brick road.
    Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 23 May 2021
  • Many of the public spaces pay homage to the building’s past.
    Erik Maza, Town & Country, 29 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, bumped bobs and bouffant wigs were an homage to The Supremes.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 13 Apr. 2024
  • He was dressed all in black — an homage to Johnny Cash.
    Ben Terris, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • The Pimmex name pays homage to both sides of Muñoz’ heritage.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Scherzinger’s version was likely a homage — and a sweet one.
    New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • But that wasn't Meghan's only style homage to the people's princess.
    Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 12 Mar. 2018
  • That was an homage to Lino and my late husband who loved corn dogs.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • For both, the tattoo is an homage to their birth country.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This was a sad but well-intentioned homage to one of the best eating streets in the city.
    Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
  • But though the move was intended to pay homage to the historic figure at one of the U.K.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • The arches are an homage to the original design from the 1930s.
    Celia Fernandez,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The bar is dipped in dark chocolate to pay homage to the dark-lighting ambiance and dark woods of dives.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The song’s style is an homage to the decades-old genre and the Dominican Republic.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 3 July 2024
  • The new shoe is an homage to Reebok’s Premier Running line.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And there are indeed a few homages to the great decorators of the movie’s era.
    Julia Reed, ELLE Decor, 21 Mar. 2023
  • At the Eras Tour, Swifties paid homage with sparkles, bright colors, and friendship bracelets.
    TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But there are nods to the various parts of his life, homages to the people and work that inspire him to his own best work.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In an homage to the infamous Chicago train scene from Season 1, Conquest grabs Mark by the neck and flies him through a crowded beach of innocent people as bloody body parts go flying.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025

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