Example sentences for: veneration

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

  • It is thought that Saint Francis of Assisi is the saint responsible for much of the veneration of the infant Jesus, and the custom of creating nativity scenes or monuments to the birth of Christ has been going on for hundreds of years.

  • As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he's become the object of much veneration.

  • The problem with all this veneration is that Americans quarreled openly about what the Constitution meant when it was adopted.

  • Although the Yukawa ads are startling, they make sense in the context of the Japanese veneration of what scholar Ivan Morris famously called "the nobility of failure," as well as what Moore calls "their emphasis on culpability and accountability."

  • Before long Harry's terror and revulsion at Voldemort and what he represents may be overcome by curiosity, and his veneration of his martyred parents may be colored with doubt, even anger.


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