How to Use deify in a Sentence

deify

verb
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  • The people deified the emperor.
  • For those of us who deify Penélope Cruz, the new film is a case of déjà vu.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The kind of work pitchers and three-point shooters do, and get deified for.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 12 June 2019
  • In the fifteen years since his death, Bogle has been deified by the dancehall scene.
    — 1843, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The show’s approach is to both deify and denigrate its subject – the people love Eva and Che rips her.
    — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
  • The fact that he has been deified by white America is not likely to change.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Which is harder in a way than just dying in the mountains and being deified.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Today, of course, the political wing once most likely to deify the FBI wants to defund it.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • By the end of the 18th century, he was properly deified.
    — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The hall was erected with the intent to venerate and deify, and the selections into it reflected the hubris of its creators.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Anyone with the will to correct this problem should not further deify those at the top, but strengthen and respect the less flamboyant levels of the system.
    — Douglas Board, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Hopefully, the effect of this marketing will be to deify Theron as an action hero, Stallone-style.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 July 2017
  • Some even deify their leaders, or at least assert that they are divinely inspired.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • For centuries, the waterway — once even deified as the god Tiberinus — bolstered the city’s greatness.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
  • They are usually deified men or women — glorified and righteous — like scripture out of a Holy Book.
    — Fariha Róisín, Teen Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Gandhi was suspicious of his followers’ attempts to deify him.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Hercules, for example, after a life as a mortal strongman, was deified on his funeral pyre.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • According to Reinhard, the children who served as sacrifices were in effect deified and worshipped as intermediaries to the gods.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • But, led by soulless politicians and pundits who deify Trump, a giant swath of this country excuses and admires what would have been disqualifying before his rise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The recent episode, however, is the first to involve GitHub, which makes a popular open-source software and has prided itself on a corporate culture that deifies programmers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • How does our sports-mad culture, which is only too eager to deify someone like Newman, keep itself from giving him tacit approval by not reprimanding him?
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Yet, oddly, the aftermath of the 2016 World Series title has been anything but idyllic for Maddon, doubted more than deified as a defending champion.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • Confucius urged his followers not to have much to do with the gods; yet immediately after his death his followers deified him and today millions worship him.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The path of reconstruction might have been less rocky if Americans had heeded some of his final words instead of deifying Lincoln or demanding retribution.
    — Jonathan Den Hartog, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Big city theater workers usually romanticize or even deify this culture — anything folkloric, really — far more than those living it day to day.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • From the Greek word apotheoun, meaning to make a god or to deify, apotheosis implies a polytheistic conception of gods while recognizing that some individuals straddle the boundary between gods and men.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The films are vocally, deeply suspicious of government and authority, while also deifying super secret agents.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Some feminist scholars have objected to auteurism, partly because female directors have been so marginalized while male filmmakers have been deified.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • With the discipline now touted at the highest levels of government, Qian has been deified, with biographies, television segments, and symposiums regularly devoted to him.
    — Mara Hvistendahl, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • This suggestion will enrage Americans who deify their constitution.
    — Joe Mathews, Fortune, 4 July 2020

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