Example sentences for: canonized

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

  • 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."

  • And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.

  • 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."

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


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