Sample sentences for ADULATION

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Definition

much admiration and praise

Don't grow dependent upon popular adulation. It comes and goes and reverses unexpectedly.

adulation = much admiration and praise

...waves and waves of adulation wash his pain away.
Michael J. Farrand -- Gibson's 1988 Home Run
He had bought for himself out of all the wealth streaming through his fingers neither adulation nor love, neither splendour nor comfort.
Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
No flames consumed his body, and the demons roared his name in adulation.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

adulation = much admiration and praise

Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

adulation = admiration and praise

They're the objects of adulation and sympathy.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

adulation = much admiration and praise

The adulation that Trout was receiving, mindless and illiterate as it was, affected Trout like marijuana.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

adulation = much admiration and praise

adulation = admiration and praise

Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors - nodded his agreement.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

adulation = much admiration and praise

I was still in love with her and now my adulation included everything she was that I no longer was:
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

adulation = admiration and praise

And so, well knowing that this woman, trained as she had been, deserved praise, even adulation, I was yet not able to utter it, trained as I had been.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

adulation = much admiration and praise

Despite the adulation of the guys at school, he felt as if there was some kind of distance between him and the fellows.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

adulation = admiration and praise

"Yessuh, Mr. Morgan," Bigger said; his eyes filled with mock adulation and respect.
Richard Wright -- Native Son

adulation = much admiration

Adoor Basi, the most popular, best-loved comedian in Malayalam cinema, had just arrived (Bombay–Cochin). Burdened with a number of small unmanageable packages and unabashed public adulation, he felt obliged to perform.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

adulation = admiration and praise

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
George Orwell -- 1984

adulation = much admiration and praise

Adulation, being new in any form, pleased her.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
The adulation of salaaming courtiers came to be sweet music to his ears.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
But the people's good sense would hate the adulator who pretends that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
John Kennedy has the adulation of the crowds all to himself.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

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