ennoble

Example Sentences

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One of U2’s enduring strengths has been the way its songs ennoble yearning and turbulence.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 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

New duties on handbags, Minkoff wrote, “will only ennoble the bad actors in the Chinese economy who pose a genuine threat to our business via bad faith registrations of our recognized trademarks.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2018

That which, truly used, has most power to ennoble, has also, when warped or dwarfed, most power to degrade.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)