Example sentences for: honoring

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

  • Still, they enjoy a brief existence of a sort, and names for them, honoring physicists and the locations of their laboratories, are already queued up awaiting approval by the scientific community at large: Rutherfordium for #104 (Ernest Rutherford), Dubnium for #105 (after the Russian lab at Dubna), Seaborgium for #106 (Glenn Seaborg), Bohrium for #107 (Niels Bohr), Hassium for #108 (Hesse province in Germany, where the Darmstadt lab is located) and—the first element to be named solely for a woman—Meitnerium for #109 (Lise Meitner).

  • The Enquirer complains that the new Caribbean stamp honoring 60 Minutes stalwart Mike Wallace makes him look like an "old geezer ...

  • Following rituals such as taking purifying baths, making offerings to the gods, and honoring them in festivals will lead to reincarnation in a higher form.

  • At yesterday's ceremony honoring the Teacher of the Year, Bill Clinton recalled that his sixth-grade teacher once told him, "If you don't learn the difference, I'm not sure whether you're going to be governor or wind up in the penitentiary."

  • I hope you will remain a contributor and even consider honoring our 25 years of storytelling by increasing your gift $25 this year.


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