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:

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.)
Critics anoint the Vienna-born management theorist Peter Drucker a great intellectual.
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."
And what of “anoint his head”?
For Iraq to anoint them with rose-petal water and fancy French perfume, and organize carnivals in celebration of their policies?"