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How to use adoration in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Adoration means an act of religious worship. Example: “Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.”

Examples of adoration by meaning

nounThe act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.

  • Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.

More sentences with adoration

  • As I’ve gotten older, that vitriol slowly transformed into acceptance, then adoration.2026 January 25, Joy Saha, “Cardamom, the spice you’re missing”, in Salon, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2026. From the entry cardamom
  • But the flock love Brenda’s unusual approach to sheephood; will their adoration change the predator’s mind?2019 August 3, Imogen Russell Williams, “Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels”, in Katharine Viner, editor…. From the entry sheephood
  • Fame and the undying adoration and admiration of the rest of us mere mortals.1996, Wing Span, volumes 5-6, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, page 37. From the entry avarous
  • She had no Christ before whom she could pour her adoration and love.1904, Robert Herrick, chapter 17, in The Common Lot, New York: Macmillan, page 230. From the entry moralism
  • Barnes was probably worthless, in his grandsonly adoration.1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry grandsonly
  • He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden.1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171. From the entry alicorn
  • I was all afire with adoration of you.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry afire
  • A decade after Google started in her garage, Wojcicki wore a variation of the same dirty-blonde bob haircut and possessed the same adoration for Google.2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry Wojcicki
  • We have already highlighted the primacy of the first of these, the latreutical end of this et-et, that is, of the adoration of God.2020, Truth Is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology, translation of original by Mauro Gagliardi, page 656. From the entry latreutical
  • Chris Pine, the subject of superfan "Pine Nut" adoration worldwide, has been named the new face of Giorgio Armani Code fragrance for men.2014 February 12, Ellie Krupnick, “Chris Pine Gets The Brooding Cologne Ads His Face Deserves”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on…. From the entry pine nut
  • Beneath the marble canopy, any time between daybreak and moonrise, you will find kneeling figures dreamwrapt in adoration of their beloved Virgen del Pilar.1914, John Ernest Crawford Flitch, An idler in Spain: the record of a Goya pilgrimage. From the entry dreamwrapt
  • His requirement for compliments, flattery, adoration and awards is so continual and extreme that it is of cartoonish proportions, with all the garishness that characterizes the most exaggerated satire.2026 February 19, Lisa Langhammer, “Trump’s ‘Cartoonish’ Monuments to Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry cartoonish
  • Originally, the feast of Theophany included Christ's birth, the adoration of the Magi, and Christ's childhood narratives, such as his circumcision and his presentation in the temple.2019 December 6, Mary Kathryn Lowell, Treasure in a Box: A Guide to the Icons of St. Andrew, Archway Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry theophany
  • They watched in silent anxious adoration as their twi-headed god was led forward and seated in the centre of the circular enclosure on a massive throne of carved dark wood.1967, M. K. Joseph, The hole in the zero. From the entry twi-headed

Meaning of adoration

  1. noun An act of religious worship.
  2. noun Admiration or esteem.
  3. noun The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.

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Questions about adoration in a sentence

How do you use adoration in a sentence?
Adoration is used as a noun. For example: “Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.”
What is a short sentence with adoration?
“Barnes was probably worthless, in his grandsonly adoration.”
What does adoration mean?
Adoration means an act of religious worship.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adoration (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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