Example sentences for: homage

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

  • Homage to Catalonia (1938), which may be Orwell's finest work, was finally published by the tiny firm of Secker & Warburg and sold only 700 copies.

  • The French philosopher François La Rochefoucauld famously praised hypocrisy as the socially useful "homage that vice pays to virtue."

  • If your visit to Hollywood has filled you with nostalgia for the great days of cinema, then you might like to pay homage to Marilyn Monroe in Westwood Memorial Park (1212 Glendon Avenue, south of Wilshire Boulevard), where a modest plaque bears silent testimony to the actress.

  • The sun was sinking out of sight at the end of 43 rd Street, where signs no longer read "43 rd Street" but instead "43 rd Street: Adolph S. Ochs Street," in tongue-twisting homage to the patriarch of the New York Times . Five or six neon-striped storefronts seem to have sprouted in the past five or six days.

  • 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."


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