How to Use revere in a Sentence

revere

verb
  • The family reveres old traditions.
  • To be clear, this isn’t a place to ridicule, but rather gather and revere.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins is revered around the world as one of the last great bluesmen.
    Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The two women designed some of the most memorable and revered Black dolls over the decades.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • In fact, many of the most elevated and revered in the business just learned by doing.
    Shelby Wax, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the heart of this enigma is the fact that purpose, much like a unicorn, is revered and sought after but rarely seen in its true form.
    Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • People largely revere the Avengers, the saviors of the planet.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 13 June 2022
  • As a result, the hip-hop world has lost two of its most talented and revered musical artists and icons.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Verna believed the past was something to be honored, even revered.
    Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Byron would have rejoiced in such an irony: the blue blood revered by commoners.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The compound also is the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount and revere it as the home of the biblical Temples.
    Josef Federman, ajc, 29 May 2022
  • But there’s nothing to suggest that Andrew Tate isn’t still revered and seen as a leader within the War Room.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There are few brands in the automotive world that are as famous, and perhaps none as revered, as the Prancing Horse.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The style on the show is still revered today thanks to costume designer Stacey Beverly.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Over the years, volumes of Munger's thoughts have been collected (see here and here), and those in the investment world revere his advice.
    John Jennings, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Owen, like Britten, was gay, and his works, by then revered in England, gave powerful voice to the composer’s loathing of war.
    John Adams, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • This sequel finds Maverick put in charge of a bunch of promising new pilots though not all of them revere him.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
  • In my household, style and dressing were revered like a sacred ritual.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Painter reveres Horiuchi’s cooking for this clear throughline to Japan.
    Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Jonathan Huberdeau was as revered as any player Florida had for years.
    Tim Reynolds and Ken Powtak, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • This is a book for those who still revere Hollywood’s past, and that’s fine by this film historian.
    Farran Smith Nehme, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • He is still revered as one of the first martyrs for Mexican emancipation.
    Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Screenwriter Bo Goldman, whom Roth revered, died at age 90 in July.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Kelly Link is a writer whose work is easy to revere and difficult to explain.
    Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And taking the reins from previous network boss Jeff Zucker, who was revered by staff, was never going to be easy.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • Even Sinatra, whom Dylan seemed in the past to revere as a patron saint, doesn’t come up in the book for quite such enthusiastic stan-dom.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
  • His teammates revere his machinations on the mound, and the skill required to effectively pull them off.
    New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But using opt-out to preserve a child’s rosy view of our democracy won’t mean much if there isn’t a democracy left to revere at all.
    Daniel Silver, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The nation is in an era in which young activists don’t revere political systems, or the people who lead them.
    Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The brand that her late brother took to unprecedented global prominence in the 1990s was one of the first to revere real women as muses.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2023

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