How to Use deification in a Sentence

deification

noun

• The deification of our jazz dead is stunning to behold that way.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
• But the deification of Kim Jong-un has not yet reached that level.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2019
• How many of us could realize that all the pomp, the noise and the deification was merely a small and fleeting slice of life?
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• There’s no deification or celebrity status or false reverence in that way.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 May 2022
• This is what makes the deification of the CEO class so revolting.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• Stalin saw the symphony as his deification.
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• By this light, the president’s deification is not the strange mania of easy marks, keen to be hoodwinked by a trashy gratifying huckster.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Maybe The Ranch is an agent of harm in the world, a shaggy deification of the animus currently ruling over us.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
• The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Our work points to a biological explanation for the deification of the species.
  — Nathaniel J. Dominy, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
• There was no altruism here, and no reflexive deification is necessary.
  — Damon Young, GQ, 14 Dec. 2017
• His grandson Naram-Sim would take leadership to the next level, in the form of personal deification.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2021
• In this new order, Subin argues, deification would become, at best, heretical and, at worst, nonsensical.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Troy and Abed of Community were treated well by their creative team, but were met with equal parts bemusement and horny deification by viewers.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 17 Aug. 2017
• But deification can be a form of violence — and heroism can be as isolating and dehumanizing as the trauma of racial violence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• Hustle culture and the ever-shortening form of advice have led to the deification of undying devotion—whether to a cause, a goal, or a priority.
  — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• Even students goofing off in the back should catch on that Neil is still enchanted by the frisson of deification that sometimes descends from heaven into a classroom.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• As with the deification of Biggie and 2Pac, Hussle’s death will inevitably produce multiple gospels.
  — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Bookstores still held their ground here among the shopfronts, and the deification of French writers living and dead was evinced everywhere in street names and statues and advertising hoardings for new novels.
  — Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Bhumibol’s near deification, critics say, has in part been driven by royalist propaganda and buttressed by strict laws outlawing insults to the monarchy.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• In this plane of existence, though, these reports of abuse will at least put an end to his much undeserved deification by Mexican-American and other activists.
  — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026
• Wallace, Moore, Connor — their intentions were never pure but only for their self-deification, and their names are now shorthand for racists, charlatans and villains.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 13 Nov. 2019
• Just saying Musk’s name in tech, investing, or economic circles evokes a idolization bordering on techno-deification.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 11 May 2018
• By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, white men colonizing other parts of the world were hardly surprised anymore to encounter similar instances of mistaken deification.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit, or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• This post-facto deification often ignores her less-than-generous treatment of the Roman Catholic woman who also had a reasonable claim on the throne of England.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• But rather than coast on that deification, the California rapper (whose real name is Thebe Kgositsile) has spent his career defying expectations.
  — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
• The mountain is an important propaganda piece for North Korea, as the Kim dynasty has absorbed its mythology into the family's own lore and deification.
  — Julia Hollingsworth and Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019