Sample Sentences for

tribute

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

I wrote the song as a tribute to all parents who sacrifice for their children.

A SMALL TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR BERG, A STILL-LIVING MAN  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Then he remembered the Indian boy's tribute. He had moved fast, like an Indian.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver, 1983

Our students should pay tribute, it is fitting.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

I couldn't see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn't seem to be much to hate—she seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they'd have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I'd ever done was Have Cancer.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Finally the Chief Elder paid tribute to the hard work of her committee, which had performed the observations so meticulously all year.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

She called them tributes.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

Each of these worlds was a kind of shrine—an interactive tribute to the OASIS's earliest ancestors.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

He incorporated in many of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian—tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Tomorrow, I'll show you his fresco The Last Supper, which is one of the most astonishing tributes to the sacred feminine you will ever see.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

So I turned on my computer to listen to some music, and with Augustus's favorite band, The Hectic Glow, as my sound track, I went back to Caroline Mathers's tribute pages, reading about how heroic her fight was, and how much she was missed, and how she was in a better place, and how she would live forever in their memories, and how everyone who knew her—everyone—was laid low by her leaving.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Stone tributes to real men.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Federalist Party adopted the slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

Harry wiped his grazed forearm upon the stone: Having received its tribute of blood, the archway reopened instantly.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

They belonged with waistcoats and corsets, with quadrilles and bezique, with the ownership of souls, the payment of tribute, and the stacking of icons in the corner.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

'Then you do not pay tribute to Sauron?' said Gimli.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1955

His school picture has been blown up, and they have left the case open so that we can all post tributes around it—Dear Finch, they all begin.†  (source) Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, 2016

In an exchange of letters between London and Paris, meantime, he and Jefferson considered the question of whether to pay tribute to the Barbary pirates or wage war with them.  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Looking surprisingly beautiful in a dark green dress with a broad white lace collar, Gitl made sure all the tributes were piled onto two wagons: crocks of butter, lengths of cloth, a white lace tablecloth, wooden bowls, and a pair of truly ugly silver candlesticks that Shmuel announced had been sent over by the rendar himself.†  (source) Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic, 1988

Each of them spoke and paid tribute to my old professor.†  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

Have you seen the comments and tributes?†  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

Such a look from another man would merit a slap, but from Keenan, it's more tribute than insult.†  (source) Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes, 2015

They were there to attend tributes to the dead.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

Joe looked at me and lifted his glass in tribute.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

The same goes for the other captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010