enkindle
Example Sentences
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His father gave him lessons about it but then stopped: “He could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Minardi fought to enkindle the Catholic faith in youth — and he never gave up for the 70 years he was Ozzano’s parish priest, until coronavirus killed him at 94.
From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2020
Friendly and exuberant “Let your wisdom enkindle others” “Looking forward for an everlasting scientific relationship!”
From Nature • Dec. 13, 2016
That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Hence the idea that virgins, such as those who enkindle the useful flame, should attend the communal hearth consecrated to the honor of the divinity and symbolical of the life of the tribe.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
