Example Sentences

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The precious metal, emphasizing the breaks and flaws, dignifies age, usefulness and mortality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Your marches are full of empty promises and until you take action that dignifies and respects Black women, I have no choice but to ignore you.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2020

“Perhaps it’s time to think of a universal wage that recognises and dignifies the noble and irreplaceable tasks you perform.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2020

Heat, however, neither disguises nor dignifies their narcissism of small differences.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2019

Their eloquence was of that great and comprehensive kind, which dignifies every subject, and gives it all the force and beauty it is capable of receiving.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John