Sentences with tribute
trib·ute
T t - The song is a tribute to Roy Orbison. [+ to]
- His success has been a tribute to hard work, to professionalism. [+ to]
- Tribute, the broadest in scope of these words, is used of praise manifested by any act, situation, etc. as well as that expressed in speech or writing [their success was a tribute to your leadership]; encomium suggests an enthusiastic, sometimes high-flown expression of praise [encomiums lavished on party leaders at a convention]; eulogy generally applies to a formal speech or writing in exalting praise, especially of a person who has just died; , panegyric suggests superlative or elaborate praise expressed in poetic or lofty language [Cicero's panegyric upon Cato]