(v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
(v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
(v. i.) To practice idolatry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new generation of political leaders were the children of Elvis and the Beatles: they looked up to their older pop idols.
(2) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(3) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(4) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(5) Cowell's contract will expire after the ninth run of the top-rating American Idol, which has made household names of contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, with an American version of X Factor due to air in time for the 2011 season.
(6) Dick Clark married music and television long before American Idol.
(7) A low-key Austrian with a profile to match, Zeiler oversees a global TV powerhouse that broadcasts in 11 countries and makes programmes in 22, including Pop Idol and The X Factor.
(8) First to get cancelled : Does it count that American Idol has been cancelled already ?
(9) Fuller claimed that The X Factor has stolen parts of the Pop Idol format and took legal action.
(10) Cantona had joined Leeds only the previous February but was already an idol to the Elland Road faithful.
(11) She has been a member of the American star’s fan club for six years and was lucky enough to meet her idol in 2012 – a signed T-shirt and framed picture of the pair together adorns her bedroom wall.
(12) A sample of IDOL files (n = 115) was obtained, and relevant data elements were coded.
(13) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(14) "Pop Idol changed from a singing contest to a story show when Gareth Gates stood before the panel of judges, and stuttered, before singing like an angel.
(15) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Florian Philippot pays homage at the tomb of his idol, Charles de Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, in 2014.
(17) Wang, a businessman, thinks the retired basketball star and idol of Chinese youth has it all wrong about shark fishing.
(18) They begin to consider and learn alternatives for coping with daily pressures rather than falling victim to a rock idol's solution, which is frequently withdrawal from society or aggression toward it.
(19) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(20) On Chennai's marina beach on Wednesday evening, a 25-year-old photographer named Durai shouted for business at his stand, where customers could have their picture taken with life-size cutouts of film idols against a background of an English country village.
Praying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pray
() a. & n. from Pray, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
(3) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(4) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(5) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muslims pray at the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek.
(7) She comes to church with me; she doesn’t pray in the way I do, but she listens.
(8) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(9) A few metres away, Francisco-Javier Muñoz, a lawyer originally from Spain, was praying.
(10) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(11) New Afghan national police officers pray during their graduation ceremony.
(12) The NYPD's demographics unit assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed.
(13) I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed for an electromagnetic storm that would cancel out every mistake I'd ever made.'
(14) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(15) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(16) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(17) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(18) My mother prays for me,” said Betancourt, a Honduran.
(19) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman prays in front of the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Tokyo, a memorial for the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945.