How to Use veneration in a Sentence

veneration

noun
  • There are grounds enough for veneration, and for hope, even now.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The start and end of the protest mark days of Catholic veneration.
    — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration.
    — Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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 signs that uncritical veneration of tech founders is on the way out.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • Monstrances are used for the veneration of hosts in the Catholic Church.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Even children were, and still can be, approved for saintly veneration.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The veneration of relics of saints was already well established in the early church.
    — Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The veneration had something, or almost nothing at all, to do with the piano.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • In Catholicism, veneration is a showing of respect for saints, and their holy lives led with virtue.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The event that's the object of all this veneration was also shrouded in secrecy.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 29 June 2021
  • 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 this twisted veneration of the Spartan myth looms larger than just Leonidas’s single quote.
    — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • And yet the scale of the veneration of the Ganges makes the Jordan seem trivial by comparison.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • 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
  • There’s the veneration of their scary alpha, Dallas (Joshua Boone).
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But O’Rourke sees no decline in the veneration that Texas feels for Nelson.
    — Alan Light, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • Good Friday services at the cathedral will feature scripture, music and the veneration of the cross.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The veneration of relics isn’t a practice exclusive to Catholicism.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Fans all over, be that at Paris Fashion Week or online, await, ready to offer their veneration to their idol of choice.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • The star has been the butt of too many mean jokes, the object of veneration and a muse for film and literary retellings that have elevated her into the realm of myth.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • To the modern secular mind, the veneration of relics suggests a fetishistic obsession with death.
    — Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The industry’s classic marketing moves, so deeply tied to a veneration of white beauty standards, might also not be long for this world.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • Thus, Bannon’s veneration of the good ol’ days of antiquity is hardly unique.
    — Alex Siquig, GQ, 27 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 Washington is fairly grounded in four distinct, civic-minded stages of his very public life.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • After the war, Union veterans advocated for the display of the flag and for its veneration.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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

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