Meanings of lionize in English

Then, when you have sacrificed to friendship sufficiently, you will lionize Miss Tresilyan?

His supporters lionize him for walking through Baghdad without an entourage, handing out fliers.

Two women tried to lionize him, and he ran away and played with the children.

Her role is to help lionize her big brother.

Their producers have every incentive to lionize their subjects, potentially at the expense of a compelling story.

But red America's history will lionize him.

The worst of Gordon was that he made it next to impossible for one to lionize him.

I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.

After spending half an hour establishing his own expertise, the veteran interrogator proceeds to lionize Pellegrini as well.

In spite of serious discrepancies in his attire, however, I saw that Mrs. Effie meant to lionize him tremendously.

Egyptians now lionize the police.

Our movies lionize the soldier.

Everyone will lionize you.

Because while duckboi captures our heart today, every few months, social media finds a different animal to lionize, so to speak.

The New Yorker, April 5, 1982 P. 42 Parody of the current tendency to lionize Nazi figures.

The majority of the programs are black-and-white films that demonize the United States and lionize the North Korean regime during the Korean War.