How to Use sainted in a Sentence

sainted

adjective

• They believed whatever they were told by their sainted leader.
• Katie was the last of her sainted mother’s four children.
  — Jessica Knoll, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2018
• Bush is perhaps best known in Texas for a dust-up over renovation of the Alamo, that most sainted of Texas shrines.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• Like, hey, the sainted Showtime Lakers and Jordan Bulls once did?
  — Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
• Sainted be the person or persons who made G’ma Babe so happy!
  — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2017
• Newcomer Nintendo didn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the sainted Atari 2600.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2011
• The fear and persecution of these communities made Arpaio a sainted figure for the alt-right.
  — Raul Grijalva, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2017
• Pretty much every modern player can be looked at with some skepticism, even the sainted and the saviors.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• Mitchel, the man who attacked him, is hardly the sainted figure that his friends and family members have described to reporters.
  — Armstrong Williams, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
• Only 23 pitchers in history have thrown a perfect game, and on this day, a sainted day in Mariners history, King Felix joined the club.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• The program also gives Republicans a chance to paint their visions while wrapping themselves in the mantle of one of the GOP’s most beloved and sainted figures.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
• His heroines were never all good—they’re not Dickens’s sainted angels wearing white—and his villains were never all bad.
  — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2022
• In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• More than 20 years after her death, Diana has practically been sainted.
  — Jacqueline Cutler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Charlie’s purity renders him a kind of sainted figure, an angelic martyr of sorts.
  — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• But Maggie is one of those somewhat sainted free spirits who light up everyday dreariness (at least in the movies), stirring things up while inspiring clucks of disapproval and censure.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The sainted man kindly directed my husband to a urinal and then escorted him outside, handing me his clothing with sympathy and obvious relief.
  — Erica Groten, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• Even the sainted Strunk & White have been repeatedly demonstrated to be both haphazard grammarians and in the case of White, habitual violators of their own dictums.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• Most economists attribute these developments to Fed policy under the sainted Paul Volcker.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
• In economic and financial circles, Volcker became a sainted figure, credited with laying the foundation for decades of low inflation, relatively stable growth and rising — if unevenly distributed — prosperity.
  — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Even the sainted Franklin Roosevelt vacillated between expansionary fiscal policy and austerity, and between attacking corporate power and encouraging monopoly.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 July 2017

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