How to Use deify in a Sentence

deify

verb

• The people deified the emperor.
• The kind of work pitchers and three-point shooters do, and get deified for.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 12 June 2019
• For those of us who deify Penélope Cruz, the new film is a case of déjà vu.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
• His resume speaks for itself — no need for the on-air cast to go overboard in deifying him.
  — Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• In the fifteen years since his death, Bogle has been deified by the dancehall scene.
  — 1843, 16 Jan. 2020
• Which is harder in a way than just dying in the mountains and being deified.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• The fact that he has been deified by white America is not likely to change.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
• Some even deify their leaders, or at least assert that they are divinely inspired.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Service could define you, even somewhat deify you today.
  — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2026
• Posthumously, by the intervention of his father, he was deified and placed among the stars.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The show’s approach is to both deify and denigrate its subject – the people love Eva and Che rips her.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
• Gandhi was suspicious of his followers’ attempts to deify him.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Anyway, there was a tendency by some people to focus on a person and deify them and denigrate the others.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2026
• That should have been seemingly enough for Schmidt to be deified in Philadelphia.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• The hall was erected with the intent to venerate and deify, and the selections into it reflected the hubris of its creators.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Hercules, for example, after a life as a mortal strongman, was deified on his funeral pyre.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Anyone with the will to correct this problem should not further deify those at the top, but strengthen and respect the less flamboyant levels of the system.
  — Douglas Board, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2021
• Hopefully, the effect of this marketing will be to deify Theron as an action hero, Stallone-style.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• For centuries, the waterway — once even deified as the god Tiberinus — bolstered the city’s greatness.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
• Blockchain transactions are deified because of their completely private nature.
  — Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Big city theater workers usually romanticize or even deify this culture — anything folkloric, really — far more than those living it day to day.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• How does our sports-mad culture, which is only too eager to deify someone like Newman, keep itself from giving him tacit approval by not reprimanding him?
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Confucius urged his followers not to have much to do with the gods; yet immediately after his death his followers deified him and today millions worship him.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• According to Reinhard, the children who served as sacrifices were in effect deified and worshipped as intermediaries to the gods.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• The films are vocally, deeply suspicious of government and authority, while also deifying super secret agents.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Apr. 2017
• Some feminist scholars have objected to auteurism, partly because female directors have been so marginalized while male filmmakers have been deified.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• This suggestion will enrage Americans who deify their constitution.
  — Joe Mathews, Fortune, 4 July 2020
• But in the interim, the rule of law is too important to be left to compromised OLC opinions deifying incumbent presidents.
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
• The solution to this question can be reached not by deifying the nation, but on the contrary by completely liberating productive forces from the fetters imposed upon them by the national state.
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• The path of reconstruction might have been less rocky if Americans had heeded some of his final words instead of deifying Lincoln or demanding retribution.
  — Jonathan Den Hartog, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018