How to Use adulation in a Sentence

adulation

noun
  • The rugby player enjoyed the adulation of his fans.
  • Liu, for her part, takes this adulation in stride.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The crowd begged him to come out, tip his cap, take their adulation.
    Paul Hardart, Fortune, 9 May 2026
  • Hymns of praise and adulation are sung in honour of both men.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Few achieve this kind of celebrity in life and adulation in death.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • There isn’t much out there to replace the roar and adulation of the crowd.
    oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Smart wondered aloud where all this adulation was 20 years ago.
    J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • The last pair standing wins gold medals and global adulation.
    The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • Trump seemed to enjoy the adulation.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Unlike some of her peers, her work is worthy of this level of adulation.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2024
  • His dad told him a long time ago that all of this is conditional, the fame and adulation.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The voice of grateful freedom is a stranger to the language of adulation.
    Maysoon Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • Dwight basking in the adulation of his band of misfits, all of whom adore him for being so adorable.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Trump stood in the dark as the rain came down, basking for the moment in his movement’s adulation.
    Molly Ball, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • And still have a second left over to soak in the adulation of their adoring maintenance fans.
    Sarah Bahr, Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2018
  • Fanny isn’t singing this first act number to win the adulation of an audience.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Still, what Kenin missed about her golden season was the adulation it was supposed to bring.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Her photo, in which her hair is still in rollers and her left eye is half-closed, was captioned as the response to the adulation.
    Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But with that comes more than just respect from his peers and adulation from millions of football fans around the country.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 12 June 2018
  • Country fans put him at the center of the genre — perhaps partly as protest — through sheer force of adulation.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In both adulation and disgust, the crowds ensnared him, baying for either a touch of their hero, or his blood.
    SI.com, 12 June 2019
  • Their careers are brief, the adulation has been thorough, the lifestyle sublime.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2022
  • Whether Fournette is worthy of such adulation will be a subject of much debate in the weeks to come.
    Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Andrew has always wanted more adulation for his two daughters.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Cade announced the launch of her archival website on Twitter last week, and the adulation has been fervent.
    Robert Daniels, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • And of course, things go downhill as Sue gets a taste for the adulation, the success and the youthfulness.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Celebrities, who are just like us, seemed to be just as enthralled by the teen as the rest of us, with tweets of adulation pouring in after her win.
    Natalie Maher, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Sitting next to his wife, Lorena, Platt didn’t seem to notice the adulation.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2021
  • Might Trump have feared that he would be met with protests and then have to watch Obama bask in the adulation of much bigger crowds?
    Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The adulations heaped upon me at this point are getting nauseating.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026

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