EMBLAZON in a Sentence

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Tommy was playing MacArthur, an iconic hero emblazoned on everyone's consciousness, and I was the guy that nobody knew.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMBLAZON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emblazon
 v.  adorn richly with prominent markings; make illustrious; celebrate
Classic Sentence:
1  Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
2  The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and coming freely.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
3  Elsewhere Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
Example Sentence:
1  Tommy was playing MacArthur, an iconic hero emblazoned on everyone's consciousness, and I was the guy that nobody knew.