Example sentences for: canonized

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • She was declared the “Patroness of the Mexican Nation” in 1737, and in 1754 Pope Benedict XIV canonized Guadalupe as an official saint.

  • The paper predicted that it will be a long time before she is canonized, but quoted her successor, Sister Nirmala, as saying, "We know she is a saint, so it's not important whether that is declared now or later."


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