How to Use veneration in a Sentence

veneration

noun

• The start and end of the protest mark days of Catholic veneration.
  — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2017
• Monstrances are used for the veneration of hosts in the Catholic Church.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• The veneration of the rural class, and of the past, has now taken on a more ominous tone.
  — Doree Shafrir, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
• The veneration of the rural class, and of the past, has now taken on a more ominous tone.
  — Doree Shafrir, Bon Appetit, 1 May 2017
• There are grounds enough for veneration, and for hope, even now.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• And yet the scale of the veneration of the Ganges makes the Jordan seem trivial by comparison.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• The mystery only contributed to the veneration of Paine, adding to his cult the intrigue of relics.
  — D.g. Hart, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• But O’Rourke sees no decline in the veneration that Texas feels for Nelson.
  — Alan Light, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• There are signs that uncritical veneration of tech founders is on the way out.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• The veneration of saints was once widespread in Islam but is now discouraged in large swaths of the Sunni world.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
• But in many ways, her veneration for the book was merely a bonus on top of the project’s real draw: working with Campion.
  — Gabby Shacknai, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• The veneration had something, or almost nothing at all, to do with the piano.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• There’s the veneration of their scary alpha, Dallas (Joshua Boone).
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Across Arizona, and the U.S., her veneration is just as strong and involves more than just Mexicans.
  — Alfredo García, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2022
• The event that's the object of all this veneration was also shrouded in secrecy.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 29 June 2021
• For reasons nobody at the cemetery or in the Catholic church can explain, Villars became the object of near-veneration — and still is.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• That veneration of the bipartisan process, even at the expense of his own bill, helps explain why — so far — Manchin has stuck with the filibuster rule.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• But this twisted veneration of the Spartan myth looms larger than just Leonidas’s single quote.
  — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
• His about-face has been noted by, among others, Liz Cheney, who is soon to be sacrificed on the altar of Trump veneration.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• The Catholic veneration of saints who lived a life of monastic poverty is alien to this sensibility.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• After the war, Union veterans advocated for the display of the flag and for its veneration.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
• Fuji is a cultural symbol of Japan, as well as the subject of holy veneration in both Buddhist and Shinto sects.
  — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2021
• But for now, Romney appears willing to revel solely in the veneration from his network, even if not from Trump's.
  — Theodore Schleifer, CNN, 10 June 2017
• For them, these female goddesses were still awesome, in the Biblical sense of that term, worthy of fear and veneration alike.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The veneration of relics isn’t a practice exclusive to Catholicism.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
• To many Northumbrians over the centuries, the wall has been less an object of veneration than a handy source of building material, much of which ended up in the houses along the route.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• Even children were, and still can be, approved for saintly veneration.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2022
• Kahlo is depicted almost as a folk art icon, a righteous image intended for private veneration and small enough to be held in the hands.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
• Okamoto links this to the change in societal values that has taken place in Japan since its era of rapid economic growth ended, and with it the veneration of a win-at-all-costs mindset.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• Yet, as Mr Kurtz-Phelan makes clear, his embassy started in late 1945 in a mood of great optimism, founded largely on veneration of the man himself.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024