Example sentences for: canonized

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

  • The legendary Japanese director of such films as Rashomon , The Seven Samurai , and Ran is canonized: "one of the handful of truly important directors that the cinema has produced" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Steven Spielberg calls him "the pictorial Shakespeare of our time."

  • The chapel was constructed in 1248 to house holy relics, fragments of what were believed to be Jesus’s Crown of Thorns and the True Cross, which pious Louis IX (later canonized as St. Louis) had bought from the Byzantine emperor.

  • All words are coinages, the editors claim, and they resist charting relations between their entries and an “authorized” or canonized list of words.

  • His eloquence, his calm in the face of danger, his small-town-Ohio decency, his boyish freckles--they canonized him.

  • Margaret was a deeply pious woman who was subsequently canonized, and her youngest son, David I (1124–1153), founded a church in her name on the highest point of the Castle Rock (St.


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