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Example sentences for: anointed

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

(She was anointed a columnist in 1995, replacing Anna Quindlen in what National Review calls the Times ' "liberal Irish woman's seat."
Bartiromo, in short, has been anointed the new face of the new boom in business news.
Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
I remembered “anointed.”
David Westin has been anointed Roone Arledge's successor as head of the news division, but Arledge seems reluctant to cede his power.