Example sentences for: hailed

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

  • In 33 b.c., at the age of 18, this famous Chinese beauty married a tribal chief, thus bringing about what is now hailed as peace among the nationalities.

  • After the failures of the early '80s, he picked himself up and made some more movies: the quirky, proto-Indie downtown comedy After Hours , The Color of Money (a respectable sequel to The Hustler ), and his long dreamed of The Last Temptation of Christ . His fortunes revived with GoodFellas , which was hailed as a return to form, and floundered again with The Age of Innocence , one of his periodic attempts--like The Last Waltz , Temptation and, most recently, Kundun --to defy expectation.

  • Free-traders hailed it as a victory for: 1) American business, which runs a large trade deficit with China; 2) the Chinese economy, which has been stunted by limited competition; and 3) Sino-American relations, which have been tense since last spring's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

  • Optimists hailed it as a restrained and responsible measure that "limits spending in a booming economy ." Skeptics called it a pork-ridden sham , based on bookkeeping gimmicks.

  • Marie recently made her début as an ingénue in a risqué, avant-garde cinéma-vérité movie which used advanced montage techniques, was hailed as a tour de force and became a succés de scandale.


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