aggrandize

Example Sentences

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“There was never looking for credit, never looking to aggrandize himself,” Rendell told AP.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Mr. King admitted that the story was a fabrication aimed to aggrandize the sorrowful childhood of Larry Zeiger.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021

It feels odd to talk about, because I don’t want to aggrandize myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

I do not aggrandize what I have or what I am.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018

Hence the laws passed by the former method had usually too great a tendency to aggrandize the patricians or rich nobles; and those by the latter had too much of a levelling principle.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir