Example sentences for: homage

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

  • Known with characteristic local irony as la Montagne (the Mountain), the heights were spotted by Jacques Cartier on his historic journey up the St. Lawrence River in 1535, and named Mont Réal in homage to his king François I.

  • In Newsweek , Dan Quayle derides Al Gore's recent praise for Ellen : "By paying homage both to Hollywood and to the gay lobby, Al Gore has beaten his rivals to the cash machine."

  • Sarah, we learn, played a part in the latest hits of Rob Reiner, Martin Scorsese, and James Cameron (all of whom show up to pay homage and bring expensive gifts).

  • If the main railway station is an overwhelming homage to Mussolini and fascist design (1925–1931), the Pirelli skyscraper, opposite, (Italy’s first), is a more graceful symbol of the new era.

  • But my "backdoor sources" tell me that Liza is already planning another show, an homage to her past called Minnelli on Methadone .


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