What's the difference between laud and unsung?

Laud


Definition:

  • (v. i.) High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory.
  • (v. i.) A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl.
  • (v. i.) Music or singing in honor of any one.
  • (v. i.) To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (2) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (3) University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), lauded by Hunt as one of the best in the world, is supporting two – George Eliot hospital in Nuneaton and Burton Hospitals NHS foundation trust.
  • (4) The fight against Britain's biggest killer diseases could be hit by NHS plans to cut the number of dedicated teams of experts widely lauded for their work to improve care, doctors and health charities have warned.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
  • (6) Innovations such as jam jar accounts, run by credit unions, have been much lauded, but where they have been offered take up has been low with many complaining about the complexity and costs involved.
  • (7) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
  • (8) We've seen the film , read the book and lauded the General Manager, Billy Beane, for years.
  • (9) Obama's speech in Cairo on US relations with Muslims inspired a 3,500-word response from the retired Cuban leader in which he lauded Obama as a "very good communicator" with "impressive working capacity".
  • (10) In December, the chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, was lauded for raising interest rates just when everyone expected it.
  • (11) A year on from announcing the policy, the Singapore-based agribusiness was lauded in a report on deforestation-free supply chains (pdf) by the pro-transparency organisation CDP.
  • (12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (13) Stephen Hayes, a conservative commentator, lauded the damage-control exercise.
  • (14) He will still be lauded by those who enjoy this grotesque, sadistic sport, whatever his views on gay people or women.
  • (15) In September 1976, I appeared in a one-man show called Juvenalia , and it proved to be the surprise sensation of the fringe season that year, lauded with rare unanimity by all the major national newspapers.
  • (16) With a major strategic industry on the point of a collapse, the prime minister went on holiday , the chancellor was lying low after his catastrophic budget, and the business secretary had jetted off to laud the free market in an Australian casino.
  • (17) In the last year, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has lauded the "Chinese dream" as the next step in the country's social ambition.
  • (18) Joachim Nagel of the German Bundesbank lauded the Bank of China announcement as a "milestone on the road toward creating a renminbi trading centre in Frankfurt".
  • (19) Another shows crudely pencilled illustrations of their story, from an exhibition that lauded Zhang's fervour.
  • (20) "What I find most inspiring is how she expresses her sensuality," says Mara Carlyle, who made one of last year's most critically lauded albums, Floreat.

Unsung


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
  • (2) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
  • (3) The chancellor acknowledged recently how communities and very local councils are the unsung heroes of house building via neighbourhood planning.
  • (4) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
  • (5) Cold has become a hugely significant – yet almost unsung – part of our energy footprint.
  • (6) Sylvester , Divine , Grace Jones and Allen Ginsberg are all here, but so too are hundreds of unknown and otherwise unsung LGBT people.
  • (7) While praising the UN for its work – Francis took care to mention secretaries, maintenance people and other unsung workers during a brief meeting with staff before the address – he urged the institution to aim for a higher standard.
  • (8) So everything comes together, the unsung hero and the iconic figure both contributing to a victory and that’s what the team is all about.
  • (9) A fourth is to hold the line on the Human Rights Act, one of the Lib Dems' important but unsung achievements so far.
  • (10) It is a sense of losing control that is often at the root of so many individuals and family carers, the unsung heroes who save the UK government £21bn a year, reaching the crisis point where residential care is felt necessary.
  • (11) If you go back to 1996, the vast majority of people who went to international competition were not really engaging with the idea of winning," says Keen, the unsung hero of the astonishing rise of Britain's Olympic aspirations, who recently stepped down to a part-time role.
  • (12) There was some public funding, and the artists were often helped by unsung, visionary civil servants.
  • (13) Given diplomacy's ineffectiveness and the unknowable but terrible consequences of air strikes, it is easy to see why covert action is the least bad option; most of the successes and failures in this war will remain unsung, but some have made news.
  • (14) And sure enough, what comes back from Tirana Radio or the local newspapers is the unsung adoption of the word by the officials who have seen it in the special monitoring reports that are prepared for their eyes alone.
  • (15) He was aiming high, to build his music around saccharine snippets dropped from Taylor Swift records , or the Bieber hooks that had remained unsung, and then filter it through echoing synthesizers and discombobulating rhythms.
  • (16) How many of these unsung heroes of the Burmese people's struggle for freedom and democracy will be among the more than 6,000 prisoners expected to be released from jail on Wednesday is anybody's guess.
  • (17) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
  • (18) The bronze sculpture, situated outside the city’s library, honours what curator Stuart Tulloch calls the “everyday and unsung”.
  • (19) This is your chance to honour all of those unsung heroes of the food world, the artisans, chefs, cooks, shops, restaurants and food people who could receive one of our coveted awards.
  • (20) But I am already looking forward to the new challenges at the intensity frontier and raising a glass not only to the pioneering physicists who had the courage and vision to build the Tevatron and its experiments but to the thousands of unsung heroes: the engineers, designers, technicians, programmers, secretaries, procurement staff, safety professionals, project managers, lawyers, financial administrators, cleaners, security guards and cafeteria staff whose enthusiasm and dedication made it a reality.

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