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Example sentences for: anoint

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Democracy could always make itself efficient by voting to anoint an absolute ruler.
Critics anoint the Vienna-born management theorist Peter Drucker a great intellectual.
For Iraq to anoint them with rose-petal water and fancy French perfume, and organize carnivals in celebration of their policies?"
Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who's been dressed for combat for months, retorts that if the White House wants to hand the reins of U.S. foreign policy to Annan, then we ought to anoint him secretary of state.
Phil marries Katharine, and the king gives them the ink-stained duchy of the Washington Post . The young couple bear progeny, and the duchy grows mighty--mighty enough for Prince Phil to anoint a king himself (LBJ).