Example sentences for: revered

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

  • To the ancient Mexicans, the maguey plant was considered sacred, and the fact that the worm had ingested a part of the “spirit” of this revered plant made consuming them both a delicacy and a way to obtain good luck.

  • The Galleria provides a sheltered, much trafficked pedestrian passage from the Duomo to another holy entity, the revered 18th-century La Scala theater, high temple of opera.

  • King Theseus, the legendary ruler who slew the minotaur in the Cretan labyrinth, was revered by Athenians for bringing Attica’s scattered and independent villages under the rule of the Acropolis.

  • Sugarcane was revered by the planters and government conservatives as “white gold” (l’or blanc) for the immense wealth it brought.

  • The Marxist challenge was but the beginning of a continuing critique of the idea of freedom, so revered at the close of the eighteenth century.


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