Words similar to anoint

Example sentences for: anoint

How can you use “anoint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Commentators were set to anoint Williams the next Tiger Woods, but her father screwed it up by calling her semifinal opponent a "white turkey" and portraying the opponent's collision with Williams during a changeover as "a racial thing."
For Iraq to anoint them with rose-petal water and fancy French perfume, and organize carnivals in celebration of their policies?"
And what of “anoint his head”?
Democracy could always make itself efficient by voting to anoint an absolute ruler.
Critics anoint Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry's sprawling, postmodern titanium-and-stone edifice "one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century" (Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker ). (Click here for a photo.)