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Example Sentences

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What Gadsby did was give the audience permission — moral permission — to turn their backs on what challenged them, and to ennoble a preference for comfort and kitsch.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

The number of people who, out of civic generosity, think that they can enlarge or ennoble their selves by giving their energies to a good larger than themselves?

From Salon • May 27, 2019

“I think I know who Virginians are — I think they want somebody who will ennoble and uplift and motivate rather than divide.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2018

It feels wrong to ennoble any of this with high-flown terms like “rhetoric,” just as it is a stretch to describe much of what media personalities tweet, post or say as “journalism.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2016

In vain is Blood, or Parentages, when Ribbons and Garters can ennoble Men.

From Selected Poems (1685-1700) by Tutchin, John