How to Use encomium in a Sentence

encomium

noun

• But agreeing to write a Trump encomium for Time is a whole other thing.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Apr. 2018
• The telegraph played a role in Chicago’s early development, notably the year before Medill’s encomium to Morse.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• Such encomiums haven’t helped her popularity in her home state, though.
  — oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
• This encomium seems a little like awarding the season’s M.V.P. during spring training, simply because an intrepid player announces his plan to bat .400.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
• The encomiums his cheerleaders offer him, a veteran professional politician in a baggy suit, are as extreme as his ideas.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
• This encomium was not one that Frankfurter received only posthumously.
  — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• In a fitting tribute, the shuffle of iconic characters that opens every Marvel movie here is composed entirely of images of Boseman, a moving encomium to a gifted and charismatic actor who left the stage much too soon.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• More problematic are the amateurish musical choices and the breathless encomiums on the soundtrack.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Colleges and universities offer encomiums to free speech and inquiry, which the First Amendment protects, at least in theory, at public institutions.
  — Peter Berkowitz, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2017
• Comey’s congressional testimony, in 2007, about the confrontation raised his public profile, earning him encomiums from both parties.
  — Peter Elkind, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
• Ralph Lauren is admired throughout the fashion industry as the quintessential American designer, and singer-songwriter John Legend’s success is evident from countless encomiums and a shelf full of awards.
  — Kristina O’Neill, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Here’s a second reason for caution: Despite heady media claims that pizza is now being made by artificial intelligence (and a similar suggestion from the company itself), Picnic’s device doesn’t quite earn that encomium.
  — Stephen L. Carterbloomberg, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
• Clinton’s encomium ignored his mentor’s segregationism.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024