GLORIFY in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for GLORIFY, such as:

1. They sing hymns to glorify God.
2. The film glorifies war and violence.
3. Poets who glorified it were mostly men.
4. You are going to glorify a rather mediocre building.
5. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying it.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLORIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glorify
 v.  cause to seem more splendid; beautify
Classic Sentence:
1  This tribute to the unusual transformed and glorified her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  His friend, jubilant and glorified, holding his treasure with vanity, came to him there.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
4  The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
5  It was a sort of written duet, wherein each glorified the other in loverlike fashion, very pleasant to read and satisfactory to think of, for no one had any objection to make.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
6  Poets who glorified it were mostly men.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  During his walk home his most intelligible sensation was that his scheme had somehow become glorified.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
8  It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  As we sat over our vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
10  Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
11  It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
12  You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  You are going to glorify a rather mediocre building.
2  They sing hymns to glorify God.
3  I didn't like the way the film glorified war/violence.
4  A traveler relating his tropical experiences glorifies the banana, stating that he has eaten it “ripe and luscious from the tree!”
5  The film glorifies war and violence.