How to Use adoration in a Sentence

adoration

noun
  • The doctor has earned the adoration of his patients.
  • They looked at the baby in adoration.
  • And paired with the ethos of Baccarat, the spa takes that adoration over the top.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 2 June 2023
  • There will be more and more adoration of the Army, even though the Army has failed.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The looks of adoration on their faces were of a kind seldom seen outside of a manger.
    Christopher Lloyd, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
  • But the party had, at last, made its choice, and Trump drank in the adoration of the crowd like a man dying of thirst.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Which parts of the ear are getting the most adoration through adornment right now?
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But despite the adoration for the music of those times, Sanchez does not feel like he was born in the wrong decade.
    Gen Handley, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Rodriguez, of Sin City and Spy Kids fame, wasn't just there to bask in adoration.
    A A Dowd, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • From his many, many jobs to his love and adoration of his mother, Kirk was one of a kind.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And that the object of their adoration should be — Donald Trump.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And the band delivered a set worthy of that adoration even if things got off to a slow start.
    cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, which parts of the ear are getting the most adoration through adornment right now?
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 31 May 2022
  • There’s much more adoption and adoration for the model now.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
  • His adoration of the treehouse instilled in him a lifelong love of the attraction and the film it was based upon.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Arte Moreno dropped the price of beer on his first day on the job in 2003 as the new owner, drawing the adoration of Los Angeles Angels fans.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The level of adoration among his fans has often been likened to that of a religious figure.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But Tillmans’s world is not a war zone or people smashing up on the rocks struggling for fame and adoration.
    Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The throwback was met with adoration in the comments section from some famous friends.
    Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Viewers tweeted their way through the grief of her death, shock of her body count, and pure adoration of Coolidge’s performance.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Cowell, noticing the audience's adoration for the standup, gave him the Golden Buzzer.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Their baby boy was met with adoration from other friends as well.
    Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Though beloved Emmy-winning sitcom Friends said goodbye in 2006, that doesn’t mean the fandom died down and the adoration wore off.
    Alana Altmann, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
  • If so, it’s been a roller-coaster ride for a woman who ignites emotions of adoration to blind fury.
    Patrick Gillespie, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • His half-cracked grandeur, boosted by Smith’s skewed stares of adoration, sends the movie into a loopy giddiness.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • To obsess about a band as a teenager is to want to possess them—as lovers, maybe, but also as objects to place your adoration.
    Julia Sonenshein, ELLE, 25 July 2023
  • In other words, the depth of their adoration for each other is infinite.
    Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
  • Some of her A-list friends expressed their adoration over the family portrait.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 May 2023
  • And the amount of respect and the amount of adoration that every Black woman in my life has for someone like that is incredible.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Halfway through the seven-song set, the very shy Babenzien received a dedication of love and adoration from the band.
    Olive Leatherwood, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2022

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