tribute

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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

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

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

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

Once I'd gotten a bottle from Massachusetts, which I kept as a tribute to how far something can go in life.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

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

But particular tribute was paid to the golden age of Russian literature:  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

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

Papaw was born James Lee Vance in 1929, his middle name a tribute to his father, Lee Vance.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

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."

All of them would be turned out of their cottage if they could not give their lord the tribute he levied.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

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

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

There are fewer of these tributes than there used to be, though still more than enough.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

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

Farther down the wall, Langdon saw tributes to the Earth's four temporal seasons-primavera, estate, autunno, inverno.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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

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

Inside, through the glass, I could see an interior wall filled with pictures and paintings, a visual tribute to "The Greatest Generation," said a poster above the images.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

From the way it looked here, where you could hardly be bothered to lift your feet to step over a dead woman's arm, he did not think he would be needing apologies or tributes.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

It was a tribute to the country's martyrs, and the translation ran something like this: "My death is not my own, but yours, and its significance depends on what you do with it."†  (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

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