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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

All that emphasis on Powhatan as the only native leader of significance — that’s because he was the most familiar to the settlers, who tended to aggrandize their own experience, King said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018

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

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018

For Agassiz it might be said, with a variation of the well-known adage, that there was nothing he touched that he did not aggrandize.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)