How to Use eulogize in a Sentence

eulogize

verb

• He was eulogized at his funeral as a great actor and a good friend.
• There are too many lyrics with which to eulogize him: on art, on show biz, on mothers, on grief.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2021
• In this one, Sarah Miller uses dry wit to eulogize a relative who was kind of a jerk, and whose death, frankly, doesn’t faze her.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• His departure from the show feels like a death, eulogized in later episodes.
  — Simon Wu, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2024
• From the moment Elon Musk closed his Twitter deal, the network’s diehard users have taken steps to eulogize it.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• To lament the end of the manual transmission is to eulogize much more than shifting gears.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
• The Warriors will try to recalibrate on the fly and prove wrong all the critics eulogizing their reign.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• Known for their squeaks and eulogized in a Sesame Street song on TV, rubber duckies have been a childhood bath-time staple for years.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• In a joint statement, Cox and his other Friends costars eulogized Perry.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 May 2024
• Some argue that Plath has been eulogized enough, but who’s to say when a subject has been exhausted?
  — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
• Now that Clark, who was 22 and a father, has been eulogized and buried, some who live a safe distance from the neighborhood where Clark was gunned down on March 18 are poised to move on.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
• Though much eulogized in the decades since it was overtaken by the compact disk, the cassette tape, even in our digital era, is far from dead.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• In the first part of this book, fifty-eight micro-fictions eulogize the figures whose lives and work are a balm for the disillusioned author.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• Stamos and Saget appeared as guests on the show to eulogize the comedian Don Rickles, who died in April 2017.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2022
• At the service, Michaud was eulogized by a grandson in a tribute sprinkled with French phrases.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
• On Thursday, Putin appeared to eulogize Prigozhin but stopped short of confirming his death.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• Staub will not be eulogized at the Mass, the family said, but family and friends will have a chance to tell stories about Staub during the reception.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• On Twitter Tuesday evening, a flood of messages eulogized Lee.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
• As marketers and journalists debated the effects of the name change, and tweeters (x-ers?) eulogized the bird, the posts continued.
  — WIRED, 29 July 2023
• During his funeral, his casket was set on the pitcher’s mound here as he was eulogized.
  — Vahe Gregorian and Maria Torres, kansascity, 6 July 2018
• In 1863, Abraham Lincoln stood at Gettysburg, on ground still stained by death and in air filled with the stench from shallow graves, and eulogized the dead only in the most general terms.
  — James E. Wright, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
• Eminem couldn’t bury Slim Shady without eulogizing him in some way.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
• Friends and relatives of the deceased eulogized their beloved friend or relative.
  — Bea Lewis, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
• When the restaurant closed for good, in 2019, amid a reported half-million dollars in unpaid taxes, it was eulogized as the end of a certain bohemian way of life in the city.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• Williams’ parents were both eulogized at Caviness’ church.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019
• His widow, Betty Henn, had a message to deliver Thursday, as the man who was her high school sweetheart and life partner for more than 60 years was eulogized.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2017
• Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, eulogized her daughter in a powerful and righteous way.
  — Joshua Adams, Longreads, 17 Aug. 2017
• Albert Vann, along with Charles Barron, eulogized Carson in 2008.
  — Zachary Evans, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• As The Day is dying, the reporters and editors gather at a bar to eulogize it, and one talks about her misbegotten career choice, which has left her with two weeks’ severance and $81 in the bank.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
• Jenny endured a lifetime of abuse from her husband, and Lily resentfully tried and failed to eulogize her dad at his funeral.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024