Verb (used without object) : to idolize as did ancient Greece and Rome.    From Dictionary.com. 

Many silly French people I know now idolise Sartre.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

If you idolise wealth you create poverty, someone famous once said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disagreeing With Dignan: The Politics Of Poverty And Welfare] Reference

If hipsters idolise drug using British guys that make outlandish comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effetes of Strength: The Dandies of Cycling] Reference

I think that would rule out large parts of the American population you idolise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Buchanan: Americans Should Consider Allowing Only White Immigrants] Reference

If you idolise wealth you create poverty, someone famous once said. paraphrased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disagreeing With Dignan: The Politics Of Poverty And Welfare] Reference

The Czechs love the freedom they enjoy and many of them idolise Margaret Thatcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [[declan ganley] not protocol, old chum] Reference

Like Thatcher, people either hate Tymoshenko or idolise her; no one is ever indifferent.    From Wordnik.com.  [I want to be Ukraine’s Thatcher] Reference

Typical Palin lies, why you as a rational conservative idolise that nut job I will never understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

It's very tempting now she's not here to idolise her to my heart's content, but I do think she was extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Sage, my mum] Reference

How can society on the one hand idolise writers and on the other hand despise books and their place in our lives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writers as stars?] Reference

He said that young people in the UK should idolise businesspeople in the same way they treat footballers as heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

It was very hard not to idolise paediatricians, she knew that, though it had never hit her as hard as it had just now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

THere are smart conservatives out there – why idolise the cretins of your party – Reagan, then Quayle, then W, now Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Was Palin's resignation a smart move?] Reference

Haiti's eight million people idolise the Brazilians - and 1,800 UN peacekeepers were on hand to make sure they don't get too close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference

Every Pakistani child learns early to venerate the army and to idolise the martyrs that have sacrificed their lives for the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers Hypocrisy Endangers Whole World] Reference

All the rest of us know is that they idolise creation and destruction, that they make bombs too small to see, and then wipe them away.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

You have a tendency to idolise the people you love.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

O'Neill is correct, "Only a fool would idolise Blix.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude] Reference

Who did you idolise when you first started playing bass?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference

Anyone that you idolise when it comes to staying in shape?.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

We have a lot of supporters who idolise this club and love it.    From Wordnik.com.  [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference

We all idolise the child, and she is never left alone a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicely and Other Stories] Reference

"He may not idolise his past, yet he cannot escape from it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

"It's about setting examples for young people who idolise them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

'It's about setting examples for young people who idolise them.'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The other girls idolise her cz she is pretty, funny and popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

The children idolise him, and so indeed does the whole neighbourhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

He might idolise Alwyn, but not so as to clash with his own comforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuttie's Father] Reference

She and her mother absolutely idolise him, and I do not wonder at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

You know how I idolise her, but I can't do for her what a mother would do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Social Season] Reference

Oh, I have nothing to say against her as a mother, the children idolise her!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference

If it be bad to idolise you, I am the worst of men; if it be good, I am the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

I only am blogging about this because I don't like how people blindly idolise Obama!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it.] Reference

And shall we now idolise the persons of princes more than Papists do the persons of popes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

Germany, the one general-in fact the one man -- whom the people felt that they could idolise.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Four Years in Germany] Reference

And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealise and idolise our childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference