How to Use laudatory in a Sentence

laudatory

adjective

• The play received mostly laudatory reviews.
• Read more: The laudatory words are a far cry from the bristling tension that used to exist between the two men.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2017
• There have been laudatory films made on Khabar Lahariya in the past, Meera Devi said.
  — Nandini Ramnath, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2022
• Some of the reactions were laudatory; some were less so (who can resist a man-bun joke, after all?).
  — Longreads, 20 July 2023
• But Gates' comments about Mr. Trump weren't all laudatory.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2018
• The guest list and laudatory tone were set; the protocol and the videos narrated by Queen Latifah and Oprah Winfrey were in place.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• There is a little detail tangled up in the laudatory mix, though: His Real contract is about to end.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
• His 2007 feature, My Winnipeg, was seen as a laudatory and mocking ode to his hometown.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
• But that body of opinion is itself too laudatory toward the central bank.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
• But what the laudatory stories didn’t mention was that a Trump win was not Moore’s only prediction.
  — Dan Gardner, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• Hendershott was an old-school gentleman in all the good and laudatory ways that implies.
  — OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Another laudatory lavatory along the bay: the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The response to Biles’s candor has been mostly laudatory, an indicator of the waning hold of sports’ win-at-all-costs ethos.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
• Auburn coach Bryan Harsin was even laudatory of Joseph following the team’s first scrimmage on Saturday.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2022
• The laudatory tone of this well-meaning, inspirational effort is so extreme that even Frank Capra might have dismissed it as being too good to be true.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2017
• So obviously there was the Doja Cat clip that went viral, and then there have been other prominent acts who have been laudatory of y’all.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• Still, Turley received a copy of a laudatory video that would have been shared at the retirement gala as well as scores of accolades from friends, colleagues and admirers.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2020
• To be sure, reducing mental health stigma at work is laudatory.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• The movement is growing and often receives laudatory press.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 22 Feb. 2020
• Maybe that’s why such announcements can’t help but feel a little self-laudatory, like those holiday letters people used to send.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Local reviews have been laudatory, and her voice sounds as powerful and assured as ever.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• The answers range from laudatory to disparaging, depending on which experts are asked.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Trump offered laudatory remarks about Manning but did not mention her students or refugees.
  — Allie Malloy, CNN, 2 May 2018
• Kraft has been laudatory of Vrabel dating back to the former linebacker's days with New England, which included helping the franchise win three titles as a linebacker.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• Americans may balk at the idea that reaching 2 percent spending on NATO defense counts as a laudatory achievement.
  — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 27 May 2017
• In her column, Hunter also addressed criticism that the Register had looked into King’s past and decided to note the old tweets near the end of an otherwise laudatory profile.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• In the aftermath of Mackay’s death, long, laudatory obituaries filled the columns of most American newspapers—and many in England and France.
  — Gregory Crouch, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
• Altman’s blog generated a lot of attention, some of it laudatory, much of it critical.
  — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• Leaders point to dramatic shutdown and mass quarantine measures taken in China in laudatory terms—as evidence that lives can be saved, and this is how.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2020
• The State Department noted both issues in a more cautious, less laudatory statement issued a few hours earlier.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024