VENERATE in a Sentence

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1. The cathedral is a venerable building.
2. May Day has become a venerable institution.
3. To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.
4. The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
5. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.

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venerate
 v.  treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
2  Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing more venerable possible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
3  Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
4  It was concluded that some relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
5  The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
6  The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
7  To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
8  The years finally produce around a head a venerable dishevelment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
9  There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
10  He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
11  Nothing in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; venerable growth reigned there among them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
12  Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
13  Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed his brow on the preceding evening.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
14  Madeleine re-appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
15  In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of children.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Example Sentence:
1  In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
2  The cathedral is a venerable building.
3  May Day has become a venerable institution.
4  We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.
5  He felt more than simple admiration for Miss Euston; he experienced a kind of veneration for her.
6  Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
7  This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia's most venerated public place, and traditionalists were not amused.