Example sentences for: anointed

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

  • But over the last generation, high-achieving Asian-Americans have been anointed "honorary" whites, usually so ordained by conservatives wary of black militancy.

  • But that issue could easily be turned against the anointed candidate--"Hillary and the bosses want to keep poor candidate X off the ballot," etc.

  • For some Americans, JFK remains the anointed apostle of the New Frontier.

  • Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.

  • Louis’s reactionary successor, his brother Charles X, was interested only in renewing the traditions of the Ancien Régime, even having himself anointed and crowned at the ancient cathedral of Reims.


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