Sentence examples for idol status from inspiring English sources

The Parisian's ascent to teen idol status wasn't overnight.

He's gone from icon to idol status in my mind".

Three years later, the firm has done hundreds of media interviews and — not surprisingly — its founders have approached idol status.

Of his cohort, Mr. Hamill said Mr. Ford was the one meant for matinee idol status: "He's a brilliant actor — that's a given," he said.

"When you go into a club and the D.J. is wearing something, it almost gives it idol status," said Frannie Schultz, 21, a college student from Brooklyn.

Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.

In China, Mr. Obama does not enjoy the matinee-idol status that has followed him elsewhere.

Mr. Giddins, whose authoritativeness is his greatest strength, does not share with biographers of Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra the automatic assumption of a reader's pulse-quickening recollection of his subject's matinee-idol status.

There is nothing wrong with that, but it will never lift him to the matinee-idol status of Oscar De La Hoya, or put him in the same financial strata.

Reagan's near-idol status in the G.O.P. is so ingrained that when potential party chairmen were asked last month to name their political hero, the moderator hastened to add "aside from President Reagan".

A handsome actor who achieved teen-idol status as the surf hunk Moondoggie in a trio of "Gidget" films, Mr. Darren -- wearing those form-fitting slacks and an olive green turtleneck -- played Dr. Tony Newman on a 1966 ABC series called "The Time Tunnel". Fifteen of the show's 30 episodes, plus an unbroadcast extended version of the pilot, are now available on four double-sided discs.